Re: html Documentation

[Nigel S. <nig...@us...>]

> > The documentation is all automatically built from the php source file
using
> > a perl script.
>
> just out of curiosity - why did you write this in Perl rather than php?

a) I'd learnt Perl before PHP and was therefore more fluent in Perl.
b) I already had a "framework" for building scripts like this.  ie analyse a
file and produce an XML file.
c) I've always thought of PHP as a server side pre-processor rather than a
language for building utility scripts in.  The output of php is naturally
html, which isn't ideal if you want to drive it from a batch file.  With
perl your output can be whatever you want it to be.

Were I to build the doc generator again from scratch then I don't know
whether I would have chosen PHP or Perl.  The a and b reasons above were 90%
of the reason it was Perl rather than PHP.

:o)

Nigel

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