[thelist] PERL vs. PHP

[Simon Willison]

At 12:59 11/07/2002 -0500, Jeff Hinds wrote:
>Can anyone direct me to resources that would
>show one that PHP is a better scripting language
>than PERL?
>
>We're trying to convince upper management of
>the benefits.

I doubt you'll find one, because PHP isn't a better scripting language than
Perl :) Different tools for different jobs - PHP excels at web scripting
because it has built in functionality for pretty much everything you could
want to do, but Perl is a far more general purpose language (not to mention
a lot more powerful in many respects, if you don't mind soe scary looking
syntax).

As far as convincing management of the benefits of PHP for web scripting
goes, I'd take a look at the case studies on <http://www.zend.com/>.

Good luck,

Simon Willison
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/