Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-27 Thread Xah Lee
«use bytes; # Larry can take Unicode and shove it up his ass sideways. # Perl 5.8.0 causes us to start getting incomprehensible # errors about UTF-8 all over the place without this.» From: the source code of WebCollage (1998) http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ by Jamie W. Zawi

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-15 Thread Måns Rullgård
Martin Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Tin" == Tin Gherdanarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tin> Xah Lee wrote: >>> recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i >>> read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze >>> because it is roughly base

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-14 Thread John Bokma
Martin Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perl, too, since he doesn't seem to understand it when people tell him > to bugger off in plain English. "It" buggers off if everybody ignores it. "It" posts because it knows that its actions pisses off so many people. -- John S

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Tin" == Tin Gherdanarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tin> Xah Lee wrote: >> recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i >> read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze >> because it is roughly based on Per

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-14 Thread Tin Gherdanarra
Xah Lee wrote: > recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i > read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it > is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. I suspect that you are a computer program posing as a human usenet correspondent. Ple

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-12 Thread gene tani
y. > > > >i felt a sensation of neatness, as if php = Perl Improved, for a > >dedicated job of server-side scripting. > > The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is > extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-base

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-12 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:25:08 GMT in comp.lang.python, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is >extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-based web >programs with PHP. > >However, it seems that

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-10 Thread Tim Roberts
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i >read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it >is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. > >i felt a sensation of neatness,

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread J�rgen Exner
Roedy Green wrote: Of course I have Xah plonked but thanks to your > On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> [...] Perl, of which i have mastery. I had the laugh of the week. Thank you very much, you really made my day. jue -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread IchBin
Thomas G. Marshall wrote: > Roedy Green said something like: >> On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted >> or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> >>> recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i >>> read almost the entirety of the php doc

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas G. Marshall
Roedy Green said something like: > On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted > or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i >> read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread Roedy Green
On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i >read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it >is roughly based on Perl, of which i have

PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. i felt a sensation of neatness, as if php = Perl Improved, for a dedicated job of server-side scripting