Time to replace Perl with PHP?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Is it time to replace Perl with PHP? Wink

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/jayesh20021111.php3 wrote:

Introduction

With the introduction of version 4.2, PHP has started supporting a new SAPI (Server Application Programming Interface) called CLI (Command Line Interface). This facility was introduced to help developers create small shell applications (scripts) with PHP. So, now you can kiss Perl goodbye forever.

The CLI SAPI was released for the first time with PHP 4.2.0, but was still experimental back then and had to be explicitly enabled with --enable-cli when running ./configure. With PHP 4.3.0 the CLI SAPI will no longer be experimental and therefore will always be built and installed as the php (called php.exe on Windows) binary.

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4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

I hate Perl, and like PHP, so yeah.

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:10 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

yeah! down with perl! Very Happy

if people stopped using it, that'd mean I wouldn't have to try and learn it...

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:51 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

What is really needed is a Perl <-- --> PHP convertor.
This sort of program would be a goldon app Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:59 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

yeah, that'd be good

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 6:23 am (21 years, 4 months ago)

I had posted for that a few months ago, but didnt get any response Sad

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 10:23 am (21 years, 4 months ago)

I think you would have to be a PHP and Perl god to be able to write one. Sad

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:17 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

The main problem is in Perl no standards are defined / followed. In PHP we have Pear. In Perl we also have lots and lots of obfuscated coding done, which makes the things even more difficult.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

From what I have heard, the problem with Perl is that there are way too many ways to do one thing, which means that everyone does it the way they want Smile

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 7:09 am (21 years, 4 months ago)

Daniel wrote:

From what I have heard, the problem with Perl is that there are way too many ways to do one thing, which means that everyone does it the way they want :)

Ok, but our name is 4WEBHELP and you go renamed it to 4PHPHELP ????

Don't tell me that nobody is using Perl anymore in this world. All kind of programming we've to give support. Not only PHP but also Perl/Javascript/ASP/

You know that PHP is the same as Perl but it's more simple, so everybody can work with this. Still when you like to remove this from our Forum then remove more en make one with the name
Other Scripting Support ---> Perl, JavaScript, ASP

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

I never said we should stop supporting Perl or remove its forum. I'm just trying to create some discussion on the disadvantages/advantages of Perl vs. PHP.

WebHelper Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 56 Location: UK

I was thinking about this problem of language incompatibility recently. I was thinking that you could define a new language that is a dialect of XML. Then use XSLT to transform your program into any language you liked. Only problem being, this language would have to be a subset of all languages, making most tasks impossible Neutral

. Still, a nice use for XML, I thought Smile