framboise:

Why are you tempted to rewrite it in perl? Don't get me wrong--I *love* perl. But I hate to rewrite anything when I have it already written.

I don't remember much PHP (it's been about 7 years, so anything I remembered would be out of date anyway), so I don't know what benefits you'd gain. But all languages have a few potholes here and there. So when you rewrite it, unless you're going to rearchitect bits of it as you go, you'll find out that you'll have to dodge a few perl potholes, and your code would be littered with the remains of translated PHP potholes. That (and the time investment) would probably offset any gains perl might give you.

Just askin'.....

...roboticus

In reply to Re: Poetry in the Machine by roboticus
in thread Poetry in the Machine by framboise

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