Tim Roberts schrieb: > Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> [...] PHP and Perl are practically identical in their >>>> high-levelness or expressiveness or field of application (and >>>> syntax), >> That must have been a very, very distant point of view with narrowly >> squinted eyes. > > Do you really think so? It seems clear to me that the syntax of PHP was > heavily influenced by Perl. PHP lacks the @array and %hash weirdnesses, > but most PHP code will work just fine as Perl.
Quite unlikely. It won't even parse. PHP code starts with <?php, which is AFAIK not valid Perl. (Anything before <?php will be copied out to stdout, which, again, isn't Perl semantics. Anything between ?> and the next <?php will be copied through, too.) I'm not sure whether a PHP function definition would parse in Perl or not. It's possible that it may - but then, I don't think it will run unless you use a humongous compatibility library. Taking another step back, Perl has namespaces and can access shared libraries directly. PHP has no namespaces, and you need to recompile it to access yet another shared lib. Libraries are very, very different. The thing that I last stumbled over is that both have an extremely different approach to FastCGI: PHP strives to isolate the programmer from it, Perl gives the direct approach. (This is a philosophical difference. PHP library functions tend to cover up for platform differences, Perl gives you the definitions needed to detect and handle differences.) If you take another step back, yes both languages are procedural, interpreted languages and use $ in front of every variable. Regards, Jo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
