[Biblic-devel] Perl vs. PHP

[<fab...@mo...>]

I think PHP is great for the easiest part, the web dictionary, the
reporting, the web interface.
PHP is not a real object oriented language and it has many limitation. It
does not support hashes (the Perl way), thus an in-memory database is more
complicate.
Our automatic translator will need strong parsing capabilities, and Perl
regular expressions are the quickest and most fit solution. Regex in PGP
is cumbersome.
Our core engine will be used both for a standalone application and a web
solution (CGI). A standalome application in PHP is really a funny thing.
And for certain functions we need to use a graphical toolkit, the web is
just too limited. Perl has everything we need, to work quickly and for
easy maintenance. I would avoid PHP-TK.. or such things.

Fabrizio