On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:34:51PM -0500, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dan Wilson wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't call PHP a subset of Perl at all! I'd call them sibling
> > languages with different strengths. I think Perl does certain things better
> > than PHP but PHP has strengths th
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:15:49PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> As for whether it will be done, well, what does PHP give you over
> Perl? I know Perl well and PHP AFAICS is a tiny subset of Perl
> designed to be embedded in web pages. Given PL/Perl, do we really
> need PL/PHP?
PHP is a tiny
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:15:49PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > I was reading
> > http://www.linuxworld.com.au/article.php3?aid=123&tid=8
> > and specifically
> > "Later in 2001 this flexibility may extend even within the MySQL
> > database server, with PHP scri
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dan Wilson wrote:
> I wouldn't call PHP a subset of Perl at all! I'd call them sibling
> languages with different strengths. I think Perl does certain things better
> than PHP but PHP has strengths that Perl probably can't compete with. But
> for the most part, AFAIK, anyt
: As for whether it will be done, well, what does PHP give you over
: Perl? I know Perl well and PHP AFAICS is a tiny subset of Perl
: designed to be embedded in web pages. Given PL/Perl, do we really
: need PL/PHP?
I wouldn't call PHP a subset of Perl at all! I'd call them sibling
languages w
