Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Why PHP ? of PHP vs Perl?
- Thread starter k4ghg
- Start date
ericbrunson
Technical User
PHP was created for the express purpose of writing web applications, so there is a lot of code available for doing web related stuff.
PHP language syntax sucks slightly less than Perl but is far more object oriented than Perl.
As with any language you can write excellent code and crap code in each.
PHP language syntax sucks slightly less than Perl but is far more object oriented than Perl.
As with any language you can write excellent code and crap code in each.
robbieguy2003
ISP
ericbrunson said:
Except asp. The results are always crap
![[thumbsup]](/data/assets/smilies/thumbsup.gif "[thumbsup] [thumbsup]")
.I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.
Rob
robbieguy2003
ISP
On a more relavant point though.
Perl and PHP are pretty similar in the tasks they can perform.
They can both talk to databases.
Can both be run from the command line.
Can both interact with your MTA (Mail transfer agent).
The list goes on. There both very solid languages, go with what you prefer.
I would agree with ericbrunson about phps' syntax is easier to work with than perls.
I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.
Rob
Perl and PHP are pretty similar in the tasks they can perform.
They can both talk to databases.
Can both be run from the command line.
Can both interact with your MTA (Mail transfer agent).
The list goes on. There both very solid languages, go with what you prefer.
I would agree with ericbrunson about phps' syntax is easier to work with than perls.
I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.
Rob
- Status