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Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Simon Waters wrote:I think PHP sucks in comparison to Perl. In what way do you think PHP is more user friendly?In that you can write a working web page in HTML and then add a few PHP bits to make it more dynamic. You can't do that with Perl, or at least not easily.
What like embedded perl? http://perl.apache.org/embperl/ We don't use it these days, but one of our customers page starts..... <html> [! ## One-time initialisation and subroutines use DBI; sub keys_from_codes { .... <td>[+ $langmatch +]</td> ...I don't see this as structurally different from PHP embedding, nor any harder, but does add optional (is that a bug?) Perl taint checking and the like.
It has some idiosyncrasies, like the $row, $col for dynamic tables, which I suspect wasn't around and was avoided completely in our limited use of it in the past.
Recently I did the ultimate sin and wanted a CPAN module in my PHP, and it seems there is a PHP library for this, and suddenly...
<php $perl = new Perl(); $perl->eval(' use Graphics::ColorObject; ...Is valid PHP, I feel queasy but that bit is only in some admin backend to a website.
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