On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > > I think if you use PHP's CGI binary you can do something incredibly hacky,
> > > for batch jobs, but euurgh...
> >
> > It's not *that* hacky when you think about it. It's 'just another shell
> > scripting language'. It just isn't that good as a shell scripitng
> > language.
>
> in fact .. its pretty gross as a shell language. We already have bash and
> Perl .. what more could you want .. why go to the effort of learning an
> inferior language??
I started a medium scale flame war on comp.databases.informix a while back
after someone suggested that PHP could be used as a 'Scripting Language'
- heh , in the presence of me and Jonathan Leffler:)
Its not intended for this purpose. The first version was written in Perl.
It stands for 'Personal Home Page'.
/J\
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