Posted by Tim Streater on 06/25/07 09:08

In article <1182574694.022848.143940@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
larry@portcommodore.com wrote:

> On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, jdoerr <jdo...@verizon.com> wrote:
> > Hey, that's the question. I know Perl, so should I learn PHP? I've not
> > yet read anything on php.net that tells me.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > -jc
>
> For me, it was syntax readability, I wanted to create programs that
> read well. Perl (when I looked at sample code) had a lot of spaghetti
> code in which made easy reading the tough.

Spaghetti one can work through. Its the unmemorable shortcuts like $_
and friends and the assumption that remembering all this rubbish somehow
makes you more cool.

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