in reply to "Perl is the Cobol of the WWW"

I would tell him how much extra you expect the work to cost if done in PHP, including the extra development time, time taken for you to learn PHP if necessary, extra maintenance time, a vague guesstimate at how much the PHP hole du jour is going to cost, ...

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Re^2: "Perl is the Cobol of the WWW"
by holli (Abbot) on Oct 19, 2005 at 10:39 UTC
    That's quite dangerous.
    <scene> You cannot do it in PHP? We'll find someone who can... </scene>


    holli, /regexed monk/
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      "OK, here's my card, call me when you find that the PHP version is getting too expensive"
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