From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tyler Subject: Re: Perl Or PhP? Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:08:11 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021216080811.B17011@zerodivide.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from julius_vick@hotmail.com on Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:37:00AM +0000 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:37:00AM +0000, vick Julius wrote: > > I heard a lot about PhP but I did not have the opportunity to play with it. > 1) Is it better than Perl? Questions like this have been known to start wars. > 2) Are there tasks that you can do with PhP that cannot be done with perl? None that I know of. I'm going to pretty confidently say that anything that can be done in PHP can be done in Perl. That being said, my personal preference is to use PHP for web-based applications. Best to know both in order to choose based on preference. If you know Perl (or have pretty much any programming experience) you will pick up PHP easily. > 3)Can someone, who knows perl, stick with perl without learning Php? > I would say sure, absolutely. BUT...why WOULDN'T you want to know as many languages as possible? I can't think of a single reason NOT to learn PHP. -- tyler at zerodivide dot cx AIM: zerodivide1101 Mobile SMS: tyler-mobile at zerodivide dot cx