Perl v.s. PHP

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Re: Perl v.s. PHP by Moonie (Friar) on Jan 23, 2002 at 06:20 UTC
No offense, but I don't think the the Monastery wants to go through this debate again. For future reference, you probably want to use Super Search to see if a discussion or topic has already been brought up. Check out these two nodes on this topic. Compare Perl vs PHP Not inciting another Holy War, but... - Moon	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl v.s. PHP by belg4mit (Prior) on Jan 23, 2002 at 06:31 UTC
I regret that I have but one ++ to give. I probably should have done a search first, but seeing as our fellow monk seemed to be asking for a balanced answer I thought I would provide one. `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]
Re: Perl v.s. PHP by belg4mit (Prior) on Jan 23, 2002 at 06:17 UTC
I have been known to use both. One advantage is that PHP is relatively light-weight. PHP also has very tight binding to MySQL which is good, but it's also bad as it can cause problems with mod_perl etc. The thing that I really dislike about PHP is the variable syntax/concept (e.g. one sigil). The explosion of functions is also a little annoying. On the plus side it has PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions ;-) `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]