Re^2: Perl and PHP


The stupid question is the question not asked
	PerlMonks

Re^2: Perl and PHP

by Anonymous Monk

on Dec 11, 2012 at 14:34 UTC ( [id://1008313]=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

in reply to Re: Perl and PHP
in thread Perl and PHP

PHP's advantage is its disadvantage: it's a great big wad. Everybody's got the same wad. You can't add anything to it with modules; everything is compiled-in. But everyone's got the same wad ... oops! ... until a new PHP version comes along and changes the language. And heaven help you if you add a single unwanted space before or after the bracket tags. Bleah.

Comment on Re^2: Perl and PHP

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^3: Perl and PHP
by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 11, 2012 at 15:02 UTC

Actually there's plenty of modules for PHP; many of them are distributed as part of the PHP core. For example, the cURL extension. Compile PHP with the --with-curl option and you get cURL; otherwise you don't.

The difference is that PHP extensions tend to vomit their entire API into the global namespace.

The embedded Perl interpreter for PHP I mentioned earlier is a compiled PHP extension module. It happens to be one that is not bundled with PHP itself, and also a rare example of an object-oriented one, which manages to avoid polluting the global namespace much.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom