Posted by mbstevens on 01/15/88 11:30

Greg N. wrote:
> mbstevens wrote:
>
>> I can understand an argument for PHP as a good choice for server side
>> programming,
>
>
> I was not talking about server side programming.
>
>> But I was talking about the basic off line changes to the framed pages
>> to strip off the unwanted frame code. Perl is _clearly_ more powerful
>> than PHP for that sort of script.
>
>
> Well, my favorite interpreter language for all kinds of client based
> data manipulation is PHP. I have used APL, clist, basic, rexx, perl,
> and php, and the latter is my current favorite.
>
> Can you name an example of what perl can do so _clearly_ better than php?
>

w3c validator,
bringing together the desperate Human Genome Project codes,
http://www.stanford.edu/class/gene211/handouts/How_Perl_HGP.html
....and consider these
http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html

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