[Lvlug] Re: Blog off to a...uh...Start

[The Artist Formerly Known as Fingolfin]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:

> * Chris Hever <fingolfin at thelinuxlink.net> [2004-06-22T22:47:30]
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Ferguson, Scott W wrote:
> >
> > > > It is my Christian duty to urge you to avoid PHP in favor of Perl.
> > >
> > > Hmmm...never touched Perl before (no desire), but I do have to append the
> > > fact that I've never worked with a language as ugly as PHP.
> >
> > What's so bad about it??
>
> Nothing...
>
>   ...if you don't want maintainable code.

I've heard similar complaints about Perl maintainability. That really
depends who's working with what. Some people can hold together scads of
TCL without a problem, others can't.

>   ...if you want all second- and third-order extensions in the core language.

Probably not so great.

>   ...if you want to hunt around the web useful scripts.

I don't mind. Granted the repository that Perl has in one place is
really cool.

>   ...if you don't want real modular code or namespaces.

I work with C...I don't recall ever using namespaces in any language.

>   ...if you don't want a common testing environment.

Like a debugger? I think php has one.

>
> and so on.
>
> PHP is a kludge.

People say that about Perl as well; mind you I'm just playing Devil's
Advocate here:

"The syntax. I can live with $, @ and even %. But please, not the
references. Not the anonymous references to an array of hashes which
make less sense than the ThreeStarProgrammers on h4X0red crack."

That's from the WhyHatePerl wiki.

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