Perl vs PHP

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Perl PHP
Perl
VS
 PHP
http://www.perl.org http://www.php.net

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[edit] Arrays

Referencing the last element of an array:

  • Perl: 
   $array[-1]
  • PHP: 
   end($array)

[edit] Performance

[edit] Gotchas

PHP suffers from magic quotes.

[edit] Namespace separator

The PHP team decided that the namespace separator is going to be the backslash character. This has drawn protests from the community.

[edit] Code base

PHP's codebase has developed in a somewhat haphazard fashion, with various developer teams piling up PHP code. As a consequence, random oddities can be found in the core, for example foreign token names. Compiling the code below, 

<?php
  foreach($x as key)
 
?>

produces the following message: 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Note that T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is an official PHP token, listed at http://php.net/tokens, and has a Wikipedia entry.

[edit] Web application development

Perl's flagship web application framework is Catalyst.

PHP has various competing web application frameworks.

[edit] Rants

I used to cut PHP programmers some slack... newbies have to start somewhere, said I... After this past week... I am firmly of the opinion, if you can't quite grok a real language, maybe you shouldn't be programming. I've written semi-decent code in PHP... When PHP was required, but nothing else was required. Problem seems to be that php programmers are pathologically broken-headed. They hear of things like 'frameworks' and 'MVC' and they read half of the wikipedia page and go write something that is almost entirely, but not quite, unlike a framework / MVC. I mean... seriously. what's the point of an MVC framework if you have to write all the M functions yourself, manually include them into each 'action' and then manually load a view class and call the view. It's the 'bring lots of wood so you can build your own ladder' framework.

— Jay Kuri, CPAN contributor (after a particularly bad php project)

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