If JavaScript is minimal Perl, what would you call PHP? :)

UPDATE - added context

I've been told that it's a kind of "Monster Perl" and I avoided it since, but w/o personal experience it wouldn't be fair judging.

And I don't wanna adopt this Pythonista attitude of bashing and FUDing out of the blue.

Well maybe they learned it from us and simply did a s/PHP/Perl/g in the process?

PS: I was serious about JS being a "minimal" Perl (or at least very close) :)

Greetings, LanX.

I too greatly dislike the "bashing" of a persons chosen Language/Operating System/{...}. Mostly because the user that chooses it, tends to feel denigrated themselves.

I felt inclined to overlook that policy in this case, as 1) it sounded kind of witty. 2) My experience leads me to believe (at least as compared to Perl) it's fairly accurate.

Honestly. In my experience, it's pretty difficult to feel confident that you can safely expose PHP in the wild. At least, unless you join the patch-of-the-month club.

As a language alone. I find many times, it's the perfect choice. I just find too many risks involved. To get into the habit of using it (out in the wild).

Speaking of "witty"; loved your JavaScript note, above. :)

All the best.

--Chris

UPDATE:

I should probably note; I'm speaking largely from a Service Provider standpoint. But I still feel it holds true for anyone running a web server on with an internet facing IP.

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Honestly. In my experience, it's pretty difficult to feel confident that you can safely expose PHP in the wild.

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I should probably note; I'm speaking largely from a Service Provider standpoint.

Interesting you say that. A few years ago, I was commenting on how few hosting services allow Perl while PHP was nearly ubiquitous. The co-worker I was chatting claimed that Perl is too powerful and assumes the coder knows what she/he is doing, while PHP assumes the coder is an idiot. Therefore, hosting services are much more comfortable with PHP than with Perl.

PS: I was serious about JS being a "minimal" Perl (or at least very close) :)

Indeed it is!

But honestly. It still sounds witty. So if it were possible. The "points fairy" would have issued 2 points, 1) for astute observation. 2) for also being witty, at the same time.
But alas, the points rules (sadly) don't provide for that.

Thanks for the comment (and clarification). :)

--Chris

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