Yes, I agree ;) The problem is that I am not familiar with this language ;) 2009/5/12 William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>: > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:23 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: >> 2009/5/12 Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>: >> <snip> > >> > Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? >> > Strange >:) >> Why strange ;) I think PHP is no worse than Perl. I think the choice >> of scripting language for tools is up to the developer. I don't see >> why bash or perl is better than php. At least php-cli is very easy to >> be installed (just one yum command) and does not cause the threat to >> the system security. Of course not all servers has it, but I prefer >> PHP scripts because they are much easy to read and understand >> comparing to Perl and Bash especially for novice users (I think >> professionals have their own scripts for everything :) ). > > And another thing professionals consider is the scope of coverage. *If* > you want the widest application, you consider the tolls available on the > targets of your effort. If certain of those targets are unlikely to have > your preferred language on it, you can reduce your targets or choose a > language that is more likely to be available on your targets. > > For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. > >> <snip> > > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs >
