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But hey, what to expect on a PHP list, right? Well, at least a story that makes sense. This is crap, so to speak. Syed, I suggest you should search on Google (for example, search for "PHP vs Perl" on groups) and see what people are talking about, and please try to find objectivity. What is said here is mostly wrong, and without starting a flame war again (Lost of megs and time are already used for this on the Net), perl is not mature, limited or inflexible (why do you think perl was able to evaluate to incorpate full OO, oh well). Keep the following in mind when you do your search: - Each language has its purposes, and so each languages has its strengths and weaknesses - Be cautious with benchmarking, lots of benchmarks are comparing apples and eggs (compare PHP performance to plain Perl, instead of mod_perl for example) - Statistics of what is being installed does not say about if it's really used. - Drawbacks for someone can be nice features for someone else, and vice versa. Please find out for yourself, and don't draw any conclusions based on the answer below. You should check them both, at least to know which language "fits" your purpose, and may be other things come into play in your situation also, knowledge around, time you got (perl may take a bit more time to learn), what to do with it in the future and so on and so forth. Jurgen --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." [A. Einstein, 1938] http://jurgenstroo.com This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > PHP is more of a "binding" language that takes advantage of many different > coding practices and puts them together. PHP is not jealous and does not > separate or shun itself from other languages and borrows many of the ideas, > schemes, similar libraries, etc. from these other languages. And yet, it is > completely unique in its own way. Its easy-to-learn, low-cost and > cross-platform identity has made it very popular in recent years. > > Perl is a great but is more of a mature language that has been around for > the longest time and it doesn't have the same flexibility as PHP does on the > web. You will find that PHP will far out-pace Perl coding, saving you both > time and money. PHP works concurrently with free solution components such as > Linux OS, Apache Web Server, MySQL Database and others (LAMP - > Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). These components all work together beautifully, > yielding fast and stable applications. Invest some time into it and see what > we mean. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Syed Ghouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:06 AM > To: php mailinglists > Subject: [PHP] what is difference between php and perl > > Hi all > > will anybody tell me the difference between perl and php > > Regards > Syed > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
