Re: Perl vs PHP

> > What, if any, are the advantages of PHP over Perl.

A lot of people who've responded sound more advanced
than I but I can't resist adding my $.02 anyway

I came to cgi programming with no programming
background -- it's a sideline for me, not my "real"
job. I learned Perl because it seemed to be the
dominant cgi language back in 1996 (and of course I
still have a world of Perl yet to learn).

I've only recently started investigating PHP. Despite
my strong sentimental pro-Perl bias, it seems PHP
makes a lot of sense as a first choice for Web
programming. I can't help but notice that for so many
things where Perl requires you to load a module or
open a pipe to do something, PHP has a built in
function there already. Database access? Send mail?
Fetch a web page? Get the size of an image? It's all
in there. It makes you so happy you could almost cry!

Of course this is not surprising since -- as most
readers probably already know -- Perl was not invented
for the sake of cgi, it just happened to be wonderful
for it because it's a so-called glue language by
design, and a very powerful (and fun) one. PHP on the
other hand was meant for this stuff from day one.

I just want to salute the people who created both of
these gems. "Great job" seems like an understatement.

David Mintz
Spanish Interpreter, US District Court
Southern District of New York
Web Design & Hosting http://www.dmintzweb.com
Personal http://www.panix.com/~dmintz

 


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