Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please charset="Windows-1250"

date posted 30th January 2006 18:04

On Monday 30 Jan 2006 12:00 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
> Ian Winstanley wrote:
> > Dave, I use the CLI version of PHP for every cronjob driven programme
> > that I create.
>
> Well I thought it was rare as I'd never heard of anyone doing it. And
> finding one person working like that doesn't mean that it isn't rare :)

$cli_php_users++;

> But it's interesting to hear that people do it. What does it give you
> that Perl or Python or Ruby doesn't?

Immediacy. My head's already in PHP-space and I don't have to do
a context switch.

Also there's a ginormous function library - I expect there's similar in =
Perl,
but then when I need a bit of Perl hacking I get a Perl hacker to do it.

Also, IME PHP is far more maintainable than Perl. But that's probably=20
risking a religious war.