[PLUG] Is PHP a good intro programming language?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Roberts <mark at ecl.us> writes:

Mark> As for perl I havn't seen much in the way of IDE's either.

For all platforms, there's the integrated Emacs support in the
built-in perl debugger that puts the source code in one Emacs window,
the debug management in another, and the stdin/stdout of the process
in a third.

For Windows, Activestate has a $99 product that has lots of
clicky-tracey things going on.

Mark> Being able to set breakpoints, single step and check variables
Mark> interactively can be the quickest way to learn what your code is doing. 
Mark> Nothing like the ease of learning in an integrated edit, compile, go
Mark> environment.

Yes, this is one big problem if your only access to something like PHP
is as a web browser response.  It's tough enough getting a CGI "hello world"
app running under a server... trying to debug your PHP web app would be
10 times worse.

Especially for a beginner.

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