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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:11 pm
by Joe
patrikG wrote:That's a word. I bet a round of Xmas cookies (good ones, not the crappy ones) against it :)
How about 3 rounds and a case of beer? lol

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:12 pm
by patrikG
You show me the code, I show you the beers ;)

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:14 pm
by onion2k
Joe wrote:onion2k, Perl can offer different things than PHP as can PHP offer different things to Perl. Lookup on it and see for yourself :)
I've been writing PHP for a bit over 3 years, and I was doing Perl for another 3 years prior to that. PHP and Perl have their respective optimisation differences, but you said theres stuff you can do in Perl that aren't possible in PHP.. I can't think of anything. :? I'm sure I'd be able to think of *something* if there was such a difference..

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:15 pm
by Joe
It's a fair deal :)

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:16 pm
by Joe
onion2k wrote:
Joe wrote:onion2k, Perl can offer different things than PHP as can PHP offer different things to Perl. Lookup on it and see for yourself :)
I've been writing PHP for a bit over 3 years, and I was doing Perl for another 3 years prior to that. PHP and Perl have their respective optimisation differences, but you said theres stuff you can do in Perl that aren't possible in PHP.. I can't think of anything. :? I'm sure I'd be able to think of *something* if there was such a difference..
mmkay sure thing mate, have fun!

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:19 pm
by markl999
General-purpose programming languages never differ in what they can do (Google for "Turing Complete" and "Turing Tarpit"). They differ in what they make easy.

:o

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:23 pm
by siefkencp
I bet you can do it in PHP with a PEAR addition. However I think Python... java or c++ are all smarter choices. I recomend every one who knows php learn Python its easy to pick up and it applies alot of the same principles with simpler formating. Python is extensible using C++ if there is already not a module to handle registry files, which with some looking im sure you will find one. Python can also be run as a script and it has interfaces with HTTP as well.

I too bet that perl can't handle that one. However I believe a mod or library could be created to use it. After all registry files really are just text files are they not?

Interesting thread.

Chris Siefken '04
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St. Andrews Presbyterian College
http://www.sapc.edu

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:48 pm
by thekingster
Looks like I have started an interestign thread.

I have thought of another way, I am going to try and output what I need into a folder on the webserver via the login script, the use html to display it LoL.

But feel free to continue this debate :D