Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "In fact, I hope you do more than "session_start() and go" > > in PHP, else you are probably vulnerable to a number of > > session-based attacks." > > Man, that's all I do alot of the time? What dangers are there, > care to share any facts figures about that...? P

RE: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread Brian . Goralczyk
n Wireless -Original Message- From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:28 AM To: Warren Vail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl --- Warren Vail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a comparison of features suppor

Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread Tristan . Pretty
>> "In fact, I hope you do more than "session_start() and go" in PHP, else you are probably vulnerable to a number of session-based attacks." Man, that's all I do alot of the time? What dangers are there, care to share any facts figures about that...? I'll go away now and read up again on sessions

Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Warren Vail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a comparison of features supported by PHP vs those > supported by Perl. You'll find it difficult to identify a feature in one language that's not in the other. And, where features differ, the same solutions can probably be achieved with

Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
Hi, One man's perl is another man's headache. beeng using perl for six years and i have trouble understanding what other people wrote with it and vice verce. not so with PHP. and what ever the module you find on CPAN you will find an equivalent or similar in PHP as well. And finally on java, i

Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread David T-G
Warren -- ...and then Warren Vail said... % % I am looking for a comparison of features supported by PHP vs those % supported by Perl. In general, I'd say that there's nothing that one can do that the other can't, though I'd also say that for things not native to the language (or even for things

Re: [PHP] Comparison PHP to Perl

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Migurski
>I am looking for a comparison of features supported by PHP vs those >supported by Perl. > >My gut tells me PHP is more robust, but we are trying to implement something >in a company that has long had a standard allowing Perl as a "sanctioned" >language, but current management does not want to figh