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PHP COMPARED TO PERL

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 7:00 am
by Nik
which one guys and why?

What is the benefits and disadvantages of those 2 languages (in detail pls)

Thank you!

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 7:04 am
by twigletmac
It depends what you want to use the language for - why do you need a comparison?

Mac

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 7:12 am
by Nik
I need it for writing web applications, sites and executables!

all in one!

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 7:37 am
by BDKR
There is plenty of squawk about this on the net. All the Web or Google is bound to find you something.

However, something to consider is what these two were originally written to deal with. Perl was not developed to solve issues concerning web development, nor was PHP written to deal with the specifics of log and string parsing. Even still, you can do both with either.

That said, there is less work needed to create a web based anything with PHP as that was it's initial thrust. Not so with Perl.

Cheers,
BDKR