Myron Turner wrote:
Jon Anderson wrote:
Fletcher Mattox wrote:
In terms of the behavior, I think it makes total sense. The only case
where it would ever bite you is yours (which is rare because most
people wouldn't mix perl and PHP in the same system).
I'm not going to get into the middle of the base64 argument, but I
don't think that mixing perl and php is rare. I've seen the mix
occasionally crop up up this list, and I know from myself. I've been
using Perl for 10 years and PHP for only 2.5. It's inevitable that
I'll choose Perl for certain uses and that I'll call the Perl as cgi
from pages scripted in PHP. Then there are things which I've already
got written in Perl that I also call as cgi from PHP pages. Or
operations that are not compiled into all installs of PHP and are
standard with Perl, like fork(), and there's nothing you can do about
it because you don't have control over the installation. Each
language has its strengths. What's true of Perl, I think is probably
true of Python as well. There are lots of programmers and web sties
that must mix Python and PHP.
I should have qualified my argument. I believe that mixing languages is
likely to be _relatively_ rare compared with PHP-only systems. I have
absolutely no hard evidence to back that up other than my own experience
- I've seen only a few hundred sites, which is obviously a very small
sample next to the probably millions of sites running PHP.
Of those few hundred sites, I'm the only one that directly mixes
languages that I've seen. (I'm in sort of the same boat as you - I also
started out with perl about 10 years ago, and started moving on to PHP
around the PHP 4.0 era. I also regularly write python and C, among others.)
jon
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