Re: [mail_lists] RE: Php perl?

2003-04-02 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 01:19 PM, Jim wrote: | Perl has the LWP family of modules for doing HTTP client applications, as | well as various HTML and XML parsing modules that can be used for what | you're describing. PHPs support for this is actually really nice. For simple things you ca

Re: [mail_lists] RE: Php perl?

2003-04-02 Thread Jim
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:10, Bob Showalter wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > I have a PHP vs. Perl question for a hobby project of mine. Which | > would be the better language to use if I wanted to go out to a | > particular web page and parse the table that's there? How about if | > each

Re: [mail_lists] Re: Php perl?

2003-04-02 Thread Jim
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:23, Adriano Allora wrote: This has been an interesting thread. Here's my take: I like them both but I prefer Perl. I use to say that Perl was best for application level stuff and PHP was best for web content related stuff. However, that kind of thinking is somewha