On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 10:59:49PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote:
> > EM>> I believe that "Perl of PHP?" will attract much more audience.
> > EM>>
> > EM>> Not to mention "MySQL or PostgreSQL", "GNOME or KDE", "GTK+ or Qt",
> > EM>> "mod_ssl or Ben-SSL", etc.
> >
> > "GPL vs BSD" and "vi vs Emacs" would make a good figh^H^H^H^Hsession topic
> > too :)
>
> NO NO NO NO, please not the old religious wars again!
I partly agree.
We have to differentiate here. Topics like "vi vs. emacs" are silly
because both are editors, both do a lot and are good at what they do,
and from here on it's just a matter of personal preference. Topics
like "perl vs. PHP" are different because these are *different*
things, and it's not just a matter of preference -- it's the question
of what tasks each is good for.
Not a lot of people I know are well-versed in both languages, neither
am I, and it can be very educating to learn what out of the stuff you
do in the language you know can be done better in the other language.
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