Re: Fw: Is Perl still the internet's duct tape?

Take a look at www.weberdev.com  and a couple of others from the www.php.net
links page. The community effort to contribute code is there. Perl just has
a head start of a few years.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen(at)rcbowen.com>
To: Kevin Haidl <kevinh(at)actofmind.com>
Cc: <hwg-languages(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Is Perl still the internet's duct tape?


| Kevin Haidl wrote:
| >
| > I have to agree with Phil: give a long, hard look at PHP.  I came to PHP
| > from a Perl background and am very impressed by PHP's maturity and
| > usefulness.  I don't think it will replace Perl.  Perl is an all purpose
| > language whereas PHP is more focused to CGI tasks.  The value of CPAN
won't
| > just evaporate either (e.g., there's nothing like MIME::Lite in PHP to
my
| > knowledge).  However, PHP will substantially slow the ASP movement.  PHP
is
| > well documented, highly portable, free and reputed to be more powerful
than
| > ASP.  The math doesn't work out in MS's favour.
|
| I'd really like to see something CPAN-ish for PHP. I suggested this to
| some of the PHP guys at ApacheCon, but I'm not sure if they were
| actually listening. ;-) I'd be much more likely to take a long hard look
| at PHP if there was something like CPAN, so that I don't have to write
| everything myself from scratch.
|
| Yes, there are several PHP code repositories, but nothing of the scale
| and completeness of CPAN.
|
| Rich
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