[PLUG] Is PHP a good intro programming language?

[Robbert van Andel]

Easier to learn is a relative term.  I'm working on learning Perl and I
find PHP much easier to learn.

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 19:19, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Eric,
> I've tried to experiment with PHP for web applications, and to me it looks 
> like stripped down and bastardized Perl. 
> So far, I found Perl more superior to PHP. 
> It's easy to learn and very powerful in almost every aspect language.
> Especially, if you're writing Web applications using Perl CGI.pm module 
> and run them in FCGI mode on Apache. 
> The performance and speed of such approach blows away all these
> Java scripts, ASP's,SSI's and PHP altogether.
> 
> Here are the links for your reference on the performance of Perl in FCGI mode:
> http://istlab.dmst.aueb.gr/~george/articles/dynweb/present/siframes.html
> http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2002-SANE-DynCont/ html/dyncont.pdf 
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 04:02 pm, you wrote:
> > I'm a "professional" C/C++/Java programmer who dabbles in perl cgi
> > scripts and whose friends have been urging him to learn PHP.  In
> > addition, I have a close friend and a 10-year-old daughter, both very
> > bright but neither with any programming experience, who want to "learn
> > to program."
> >
> > And so, suspecting that writing little programs that can be run on the
> > web would be more fun than doing exercises from K&R, I've been
> > thinking of using PHP to introduce these two to programming.
> >
> > Does this strike anyone as an unusually good, or stupid, idea?
> >
> > Any suggestions on PHP books that might be suitable for all of us?  Or
> > should I just get whatever O'Reilley has on the subject and create
> > exercises for the "class"?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Eric House
> 
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