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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-edu] which programming languages preferred?
From:       Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2007-01-07 1:35:29
Message-ID: 406572.71096.qm () web34308 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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--- James Tremblay <jamesat@comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a question.
> While researching the different Open Source School administration
> software, I have found two major camps 1) php 2) perl without starting
> a
> flame war, which is easier to secure and more commonly known by
> programmers?

I haven't bothered to read the other replies to this thread, since I can
pretty much guess how they're going to read, but here's my own
suggestions to you.

Who cares what it's written in?  I mean it -- if this is a project for
yourself, and you don't know PHP for instance, would you start writing
you project in it?  No, of course not.  Neither would you Perl.  The
reason why both are used is it's the lowest common demoninator was to
what all programmers are mostly going to have experience in, and can
switch their own way of thinking towards.

Both PHP and Perl (via modperl, or CGI, etc) are fine for web
programming.  PHP is useless though, IMO -- it's so simple that it
promotes bad programming practices and allows for anyone to do silly
things in it without realising it.  Not to mention it has several large
security holes in it which effectively makes it a great programming
language if you've forgotton the root password (it's good at ascertaining
that for you.  :P) but bit a lot else.

Perl is slightly better in that it's more diverse and lends itself well
to administrative tasks easier, but that's by the by.

Of course, your question is meaningless without any real context.  I
might just as well suggest that you use ALGOL.  That too has its uses.

-- Thomas Adam

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