Choosing a new language

[Tim Roberts]

Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:

>> Xah Lee <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:
>>> [...] PHP and Perl are practically identical in their
>>> high-levelness or expressiveness or field of application (and
>>> syntax),
>
>That must have been a very, very distant point of view with narrowly 
>squinted eyes.

Do you really think so?  It seems clear to me that the syntax of PHP was
heavily influenced by Perl.  PHP lacks the @array and %hash weirdnesses,
but most PHP code will work just fine as Perl.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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