Re: OT - Apache Toolkit - PHP & mod

Beware: you'll someday find yourself having two code bases, one in PHP and one in Perl, and unable to blend both into a single program — working with two languages often leads to writing the same code twice. This is specially the case with PHP since making it bind to any other language is hell (I speak from experience). I'm not saying use one language or the other, but the sooner you choose one the better. (Guess which one I'd choose ;)

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Re: Re: OT - Apache Toolkit - PHP & mod_perl by jdtoronto (Prior) on Oct 07, 2003 at 01:21 UTC
Oh and I know which one I choose! The other guy doesn't work on my big apps. He does a few simple scripty things mainly to do with validation of form data, checking email addresses, valid structure of phone nnumbers and such for 'quicky' things we do for a variety of clients. He has just finished a two year part time community college level course here in Canada covering web design and all that sort of stuff. So he did HTML, graphics creation and manipulation and programming. Sadly, much of the programming time was spent on PHP. I have been looking around and found some nice looking modules on CPAN for handling forms and validation, so I think he might be told to learn Perl faster than he thinks it is going to happen! His HTML and graphical stuff is very good, he has started doing some templates for me as well, so I will be keeping him for now. As a matter of very serious policy, I will NEVER allow two languages to co-exist in one project. jdtoronto	[reply]

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by jdtoronto (Prior) on Oct 07, 2003 at 01:21 UTC

The other guy doesn't work on my big apps. He does a few simple scripty things mainly to do with validation of form data, checking email addresses, valid structure of phone nnumbers and such for 'quicky' things we do for a variety of clients. He has just finished a two year part time community college level course here in Canada covering web design and all that sort of stuff. So he did HTML, graphics creation and manipulation and programming. Sadly, much of the programming time was spent on PHP.

I have been looking around and found some nice looking modules on CPAN for handling forms and validation, so I think he might be told to learn Perl faster than he thinks it is going to happen!

His HTML and graphical stuff is very good, he has started doing some templates for me as well, so I will be keeping him for now. As a matter of very serious policy, I will NEVER allow two languages to co-exist in one project.

jdtoronto

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