[PLUG] Is PHP a good intro programming language?

[Alex Daniloff]

In PHP it's easy to learn how to do quick and dirty stuff e.g Personal Home 
Page.
While Perl is still easier than C/C++, it teaches you how to program 
correctly.


On Wednesday 29 January 2003 07:27 pm, you wrote:
> 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