Is PHP the easier web programming language?

[Ginzo]

Re: Is PHP the easier web programming language?

Perhaps it's needless semantic bickering; but the post made it sound
as if he thought PHP had eveloved from Perl; which is absolutely not
true.

On 01 Dec 2004 16:06:41 GMT, Bill Bablefesche <bbable@nerspam palm.com>
wrote:
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>>> Perl is the lanauge that php started from if im correct !!!
>>>[/color]
>> Wrong.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> Ginzo
>> ---------------------------------
>> War is god's way of teaching
>> Americans geography[/color]
>
>Yes! PHP began as PHP/FI in 1995 as a set of Perl scripts.
>
>http://us2.php.net/history
>
>
>--splatter[/color]


Ciao,


Ginzo
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War is god's way of teaching
Americans geography
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[Marta]

Re: Is PHP the easier web programming language?

> This sounds a lot like a homework problem, but if so, by now the[color=blue]
> assignment must have been due already.[/color]

I can absure it was a business need. I finally paid $20 to a programmer to
have it done :)
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> Here is a BRL version for you to compare against PHP, ASP and Perl
> solutions.[/color]

Anyway, I'm curious about this BRL. Why did you decide to study this minor
language?
Your code would be useful to me but I'm feared that I'ld be in difficulty
when I'll need to improve it. How many people knows BRL?

M.

[Bruce Lewis]

Re: Is PHP the easier web programming language?

"Marta" <marta@mariapia .com> writes:
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> Anyway, I'm curious about this BRL. Why did you decide to study this minor
> language?[/color]

I learned Scheme in college, and created BRL by extending Scheme in a
way that was suitable for server-side web programming. That's actually
an oversimplificat ion. There were 12 years of C programming in
between.
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> Your code would be useful to me but I'm feared that I'ld be in difficulty
> when I'll need to improve it. How many people knows BRL?[/color]

Hundreds of high schools and colleges use Scheme in the course of
teaching other topics, because it's such an easy language that one can
focus most of the course on topics rather than nitty-gritty syntax
details. It's a simple step from Scheme to BRL.

Scheme programming is fun. Post a problem in comp.lang.schem e and once
people decide it isn't homework you'll get 5 or so solutions.

Note that despite PHP's reputation as being easy and fun, nobody would
supply you a PHP solution without being paid for it.

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[retlak@go.com]

Re: Is PHP the easier web programming language?

Jordon Bedwell wrote:[color=blue]
> PHP is a good language if you have time. ASP sucks outright[/color]

A major problem with PHP is that it gives you less help with finding
mistakes.

If you use Perl, just use the -w option and "use strict", and it'll
tell you about things like undeclared (e.g. mis-spelled) variables
when you test your script from the command line. This is a huge
time-saver. PHP has no equivalent - you can set error_reporting to
E_ALL, but it's only for runtime errors. It won't detect an error in a
code path until that path gets executed.

(Arguably, this is a problem with PHP's current implementations , not
the language.)

BTW I agree with you about ASP. Learning something that works only on
one family of operating systems is a bad thing to do anyway.