Re: [Nolug] language of choice?

One of the nifty features of Perl is CPAN, which consists of tens of
thousands of modules. Is there a similar set in PHP? A few seconds of
performance increase (we can still argue that) nowhere near makes up for
the development time, at least in my world. :-)

----
John Fox
On August 22, 2013 7:36:14 AM Jerry Wilborn <jerrywilborn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Throwing down the gauntlet(!): I believe I could port any Perl parsing
> script to PHP that would best it in simplicity and speed.  One (slightly
> off topic) example is I've ported
> https://code.google.com/p/snmp-session/to PHP and the speed was
> significantly increased (doubled) on similar
> hardware.
>
> That said, I'm reminded of the phrase "when your only tool is a hammer,
> everything looks like a nail."  I think all of the languages have their
> advantages; PHP just seems to have so many more. ;)
>
> Jerry Wilborn
> jerrywilborn@gmail.com
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:46 PM, John Fox <john@foxfin.net> wrote:
>
> > #! /usr/bin/perl.
> >
> > I work in the financial industry, thus run ETLs on massive text files from
> > mainframe datasets.
> >
> > Larry Wall rocks........
> >
> > ----
> > John Fox
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On August 20, 2013 9:41:21 PM Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I started out with PHP, then switched to Perl some years back, after
> >> which my skills and understanding blossomed.
> >>
> >> That's me... what about you? Friends tell me that folks are choosing PHP
> >> less, now that Ruby and node.js are in town. What are your opinions of
> >> those, and of Java? I'm not even mentioning languages that run on That
> >> Other Operating System, because this is a family-oriented list.
> >>
> >>
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