Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL? HOPE THIS HELPS

2004-04-22 Thread Brent Clark
>That's a really interesting link. Thanks! No problem, my pleasure I was quite shocked to see how PHP performed gcc still rocks though Brent -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John Nichel
Richard Davey wrote: Hello John, Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:37:30 PM, you wrote: JN> Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) You meant satanist, surely? ;) (or a masochist!) Ah, yes. My apologies, you're right. Evil has to stick together. An Atheist wouldn't use anything sinc

RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL? (Seriously OT Now....)

2004-04-22 Thread Michal Migurski
> Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) > [/snip] > > And if so, what must a Buddhist use? Lisp, of course. - michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/cahttp://mike.teczno.com/contact.html -- PH

RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL? (Seriously OT Now....)

2004-04-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) [/snip] And if so, what must a Buddhist use? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread raditha dissanayake
John Nichel wrote: John W. Holmes wrote: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Depends if you catholic or not. Use what you know. ---John Holmes... Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) oh d..n i hate ASP. -- Raditha Dissana

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John Nichel
John W. Holmes wrote: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Depends if you catholic or not. Use what you know. ---John Holmes... Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) --

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John Nichel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Thanks, JP Well, Perl is older and has four letters in it's name. PHP has youth on it's side. Perl is a Camel and PHP is a bird (Thrush or Roadrunner...I don't know my birds). Perl is misspelled more often than PHP

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Depends if you catholic or not. Use what you know. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread raditha dissanayake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? This is a religious question. Thanks, JP -- Raditha Dissanayake. - http://www.radinks.com/print/upload.php SFTP, FTP and HTTP File Upload solutions -- PHP General

RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? [/snip] That is like asking what would be the technical arguements of an 10" miter saw and a 12" miter saw. Both are tools, each is better suited to some things and not as well suited for others. In some projects we have several differe

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl for system scripts (non-web)

2003-01-28 Thread Maxim Maletsky
Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : > > I have to write a swath of code to manage system-related stuff based on > database content. Scripts will be run as root by cron, and determine > what they have to do via user interaction and SQL lookups. Functions > will include manipulation of

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl for system scripts (non-web)

2003-01-28 Thread Chris Hayes
I'm more comfortable writing stuff in PHP. I use PHP alot more, and I find the resultant code more readable and easier to maintain. Aside from Perl's ubiquity and the dubious advantage of future flexibility by using Perl's DBI interface to talk to different SQL servers (I'm using MySQL at the m

RE: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Jack Dempsey
[PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)?? > > ie. don't necessarily use 1 file per block, create functions that are > > defined in a single file and call those instead of including a new file. > > How do you echo your html, do you put the html in your functions and >

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> > ie. don't necessarily use 1 file per block, create functions that are > > defined in a single file and call those instead of including a new file. > > How do you echo your html, do you put the html in your functions and > escape the double quotes? There is some extra load there echoing all the

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread speedboy
> ie. don't necessarily use 1 file per block, create functions that are > defined in a single file and call those instead of including a new file. How do you echo your html, do you put the html in your functions and escape the double quotes? There is some extra load there echoing all the html? T

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> I mean, for example say you have > an html that consists of blocks... Making every block > an include is clean, but this time, php engine has to > read all of these includes, and parse the html+php and > compile/run php everytime a request is made??? I am > not sure about this? I wouldn't say i

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> ??? I didn't get this? Aren't these pre-forked > processes handle requests using threads internally? > Say you configure apache to pre-fork 5 server > processes, what you are saying implies that you can > only handle 5 concurrent requests?? can you please > explain this more? That's exactly

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Bora Paksoy
> Threading instead of forking? None of these do > either. Apache is a > pre-forking multi-process server and both PHP and > mod_perl are part of > these pre-forked processes. Neither mod_perl nor > PHP do any threading nor forking. ??? I didn't get this? Aren't these pre-forked processes han

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Bora Paksoy
> Why on earth would you prefer java servlets? Hmm... Let's see;Java is a full-fledge, totally OOP and awesome programming language but not a scripting language. Speed (will be mentioning this later), having total control over whatever you want (exception handling, db pooling, caching, syncrh

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> 1.Speed: If you use mod_perl or fastcgi kind of deals > (which are based on threadding instead of forking), I > don't think PHP is considerably faster than perl? Is > that the case? Threading instead of forking? None of these do either. Apache is a pre-forking multi-process server and both PH

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Sterling Hughes
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Bora Paksoy wrote: > Hi; > > I am planning to implement a new site which will be > using mysql db heavily, and I am in the middle of (and > stuck:) deciding what I should use for implementation. > I would definitely prefer Java Servlets, but it is > very expensive to host ser

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Ryan Fischer
> I'm pretty new to programming - besides JavaScript, PHP is really the first > language I've used. > I'm just wondering, and I'm sure you all would know - should I learn Perl? > Is it considered a necessity for a web developer to know Perl, or is it not > a worthwhile endeavor, considering how ea

RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Chris Lott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd go for it. Perl can be messy, but it is also quite powerful and doesn't HAVE to be messy. It is EVERYWHERE both in terms of availability and use. But most of all, it is a fun language to play with... and if you do any system admin it is an indispe

RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Nathan
I personally try and avoid using Perl when I can. Perl is difficult to learn to write proficient code in. Perl's moto is, "There is More Than One Way to Do It" which also mean there are more than a million ways to mess up. Depending upon the programmer Perl can be a write-only language. You can ev

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Francis Fillion
I do love perl, even if I mostly code with PHP, but I use perl for stuff that run with a crontab (a script that run on every x date or hours), I know that you can do that with PHP now too, but Perl is a really great and funny language to learn, the best regular expression that I ever use (I still

RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl security

2001-05-15 Thread Maxim Maletsky
both are cool. never heard of any holes as such, Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.phpbeginner.com -Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl

2001-03-29 Thread Jack Dempsey
someone recently posted a link to a benchmark test that was done...there's never an absolute, but i do remember php w/zend as pretty much whipping the competition...search the mailing list for the link if you want to see for yourself... -jack David Hynes wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to PHP (well

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl

2001-03-29 Thread Michael Kimsal
David Hynes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to PHP (well I used it years ago), and have been using Perl ever > since. > > Someone told me that PHP is a lot more efficient than Perl, is this true ? I > am developing a fairly large website using a MySQL database running on a > cobalt RAQ3 server and so

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-15 Thread Jason Brooke
> When Jason says 'especially when your note using the cgi' he means the > cgi version of PHP (I think) in preference to installing PHP as an > apache module. Almost, yes - I literally meant the 'common gateway interface', due to the fact that the webserver spawns the requested script/program ou

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-15 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Thursday 15 February 2001 08:03, Scott Mebberson wrote: > When Jason says 'especially when your note using the cgi' he means the > cgi version of PHP (I think) in preference to installing PHP as an > apache module. ...just as using mod_perl is better than perl as CGI -- Christian Reiniger LG

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-14 Thread Scott Mebberson
When Jason says 'especially when your note using the cgi' he means the cgi version of PHP (I think) in preference to installing PHP as an apache module. ""Jason Brooke"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 04ad01c0970f$927eeff0$0100a8c0@jb">news:04ad01c0970f$927eeff0$0100a8c0@jb... > > Is there

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-14 Thread Jason Brooke
> Is there any reason why php is better than perl for shopping carts > and/or product catalogs? > > Thanks, > Jeff It's hard to just come out and say that php is better than perl for shopping carts because there's too many factors to take into consideration. If you were a person who'd never use