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Re: Why PHP instead of Perl?
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| larry@portcommodore.com 2007-06-23, 3:58 am |
| On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, jdoerr <jdo...@verizon.com> wrote:
> Hey, that's the question. I know Perl, so should I learn PHP? I've not
> yet read anything on php.net that tells me.
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> Thank you,
> -jc
For me, it was syntax readability, I wanted to create programs that
read well. Perl (when I looked at sample code) had a lot of spaghetti
code in which made easy reading the tough.
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| Jerry Stuckle 2007-06-23, 10:01 pm |
| larry@portcommodore.com wrote:
> On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, jdoerr <jdo...@verizon.com> wrote:
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> For me, it was syntax readability, I wanted to create programs that
> read well. Perl (when I looked at sample code) had a lot of spaghetti
> code in which made easy reading the tough.
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I wouldn't say that's typical of all Perl code. As with any language,
there are good programmers and poor programmers, and you can write
spaghetti code in any (or most, anyway :-) ).
I've seen some really good Perl code (and some really bad PHP code).
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| Tim Streater 2007-06-25, 9:58 pm |
| In article <1182574694.022848.143940@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
larry@portcommodore.com wrote:
> On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, jdoerr <jdo...@verizon.com> wrote:
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> For me, it was syntax readability, I wanted to create programs that
> read well. Perl (when I looked at sample code) had a lot of spaghetti
> code in which made easy reading the tough.
Spaghetti one can work through. Its the unmemorable shortcuts like $_
and friends and the assumption that remembering all this rubbish somehow
makes you more  .
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