Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: server-side vs.client-side Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 01:26:26 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <527446B2.2070109@arnowelzel.de> References: <1ia1p6efkuy6j.ew455c20yr22$.dlg@40tude.net> <4129338.JVDsMHeclA@PointedEars.de> <5270081F.1060206@arnowelzel.de> <52701e53$0$6555$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <52706c42$0$6552$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <5270C139.80905@arnowelzel.de> <52714a1c$0$6557$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <527163e4$0$6563$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <52721771.6090201@arnowelzel.de> <011120132110598565%timstreater@greenbee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net cOlzGFfeADPLSYlbezWLAwR7UICE0SJflm+mt36o0PsFF7mxAM Cancel-Lock: sha1:sKKQUX+ZTvN4pARp9lMeJXWEra8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: <011120132110598565%timstreater@greenbee.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:11698 Tim Streater, 2013-11-01 22:10: > In article , Jerry Stuckle > wrote: > >> I prefer PHP to bash for complicated CLI projects, for instance. > > I prefer PHP to *any* shell for any scripting purpose. Life's > complicated enough without arcane syntax. Look, if I'd wanted to learn > TECO, I'd have learnt it, OK? I prefer bash for shell scripting - the syntax is not far from C or PHP and you have the big advantage, that you don't need a PHP runtime set up. And things like "do something with every file named like x in path y" is really no fun in PHP. -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de