Re: [Nolug] language of choice?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 08:58:55AM -0500, Jerry Wilborn wrote:
> 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.

For things like HTTP clients or encryption, it's better to use the
standard and time tested CPAN libs. OTOH, it's a fool who just slaps
together a bunch of modules of libs in any language.

Perl has gotten some nice tools as of late; I can't seem to live
without perltidy or perlcritic these days.

Brett

>
> 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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