Did it actually take more than 24 hours before shots got taken. ;P
Well you'll get none of that from me because a giant toolbox of scripty whoop-a$$ is why I'm on this list in the first place. It's php driving my sites that have CSS complied with compass using some custom python that gets pushed out by lame hand coded bash scripts. Still want to play with capistrano or puppet for deploys and that javascript knowledge has come in mighty handy for the new hot weird ideas people are having. I came from perl, but these days I only mess with other-people's-perl. Still it's good to know a little about what this stuff is doing. And nice to recognize enough with C(++)(Obj-) too.
I always consider myself - no rockstar / still learning. Sometimes I wish I could approach human language with as much enthusiasm, but I guess machines are easier to deal with.
Jess
On Aug 22, 2013, at 7:36 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
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> 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........
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> John Fox
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> 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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