http://pecl.php.net/ if you're looking for libraries, the comments section
of the php documentation if you're looking for quick/short code snippets.
On large projects I've worked on, the mentality of "lets just use someones
library" has lead to lots of ugliness.
Jerry Wilborn
jerrywilborn@gmail.com
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, John Fox <john@foxfin.net> wrote:
> 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 ** 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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