[thelist] Perl vs PHP [hopefully not a relegious war]

Richard Hall rhall at micropat.com
Thu Nov 14 16:19:01 CST 2002


>>
A client and I were having a small discussion about Perl and how it
compares with PHP, ASP and JSP middleware. We are doing this job with
Perl, and it seems to me its a real pain to do a lot of things that
are just super simple in PHP for example.

Like we had to trim a field of blank characters, and in Perl you have
to regex it, in PHP you simply use the trim method.
>>

Then why not write a Perl script to Trim() and call it as needed.
Every language has some gadget missing from the language you're using *now*,
simulate it.

Rick
( I still miss Pascal, but don't get me started. )





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