Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please charset="Windows-1250"

date posted 30th January 2006 19:33

Dom Latter wrote:
> On Monday 30 Jan 2006 12:00 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
>
>> Ian Winstanley wrote:
>>
>>> Dave, I use the CLI version of PHP for every cronjob driven
>>> programme that I create.

[ snip ]

>> But it's interesting to hear that people do it. What does it give
>> you that Perl or Python or Ruby doesn't?
>
> Immediacy. My head's already in PHP-space and I don't have to do a
> context switch.

I can understand that. That's why I try to use Perl as much as possible.

> Also there's a ginormous function library - I expect there's similar
> in Perl,

There are about 10,000 modules in the CPAN[1]. They are all open source
and the vast majority of them are installed using a common installation
mechanism.

I don't believe that any other language has anything like that.

> Also, IME PHP is far more maintainable than Perl. But that's
> probably risking a religious war.

Religious wars are, of course, pointless and I know that most of the
Perl code that you can find on the internet (with the possible exception
of CPAN) is ghastly. I'll just point out that in my opinion that's
because there are a lot of bad programmers using Perl :)

Dave...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN