Posted by Mladen Gogala on 08/24/05 19:58

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:41:54 -0400, Kenneth Downs wrote:

> But seriously, what does PHP lack to make it common purpose? It can
> read/write streams, talk to databases, recurse loops, perform various list
> operations, and it runs from the command line, what is missing?

My answer would be "formats" or "report writer". They are the reason why
I am using Perl for CLI stuff. Also, Perl supports array interface and
bulk loads while PHP does not. That makes Perl scripts much, much faster
when you need to load a file into database.

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