[thelist] PERL vs. PHP

[Shashank Tripathi]

Hi Michiel,

I notice that you sent a mail to the list, but under my name. You might
want to correct your address book.

FWIW, the article below is a "spoof", as pretty much the whole website
of www.bbspot.com is. Sort of like www.satirewire.com or
www.theonion.com.

Meanwhile I am glad you feel deeply about Perl but hope you recognize
that as technologists we all feel passionately about something or the
other, but we have to deal with people who may not necessarily share our
own enthusiasm about everything. The link below had nothing to do with
my endorsements of Perl as a technology -- sure it has some advantages
in some settings, which are perhaps settings you work with, just as
almost every technology has. My message was a "tongue in cheek" response
to something that I have now totally forgotten.

Cheers,
Shashank



    | -----Original Message-----
    | From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
    | [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Michiel Trimpe
    | Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:24 PM
    | To: Shashank Tripathi
    | Subject: Re[2]: [thelist] PERL vs. PHP
    |
    |
    | Hello Shashank,
    |
    | Thursday, July 11, 2002, 9:32:12 PM, you wrote:
    |
    | ST>     | >Can anyone direct me to resources that would
    | ST>     | >show one that PHP is a better scripting language
    | ST>     | >than PERL?
    |
    |
    | ST> "Better" is an odd word, but hope this will
    | ST> help you in your quest:
    |
    | ST> http://snipurl.com/perl_in_schools
    |
    | I'm sorry to say so but I found this article quite
    | pathetic. Perl could very well be included in the
    | curriculum or at least one language for that matter.
    | Furthermore Perl is not scary, it just takes a littlebit
    | getting used to and once you're through that stage I'm
    | fairly confident in saying that it is one of the easiest
    | programming languages out there when it comes to
    | algorithms and the likes. Any LISP-oriented language
    | would be great for that matter (and yeah, I know Perl
    | isn't LISP but it tends to get quite close)
    |
    | ST> Shanx
    |