It's flexible, powerful, and easy to extend. 84,296 modules are freely available from the CPAN (at least when I checked; the upload rate is staggering). It has an immense culture of quality and testing. It's amazingly portable. It scales from the freshest novice writing baby Perl to large-scale applications which must not fail, written by experienced professionals. It's malleable; you can program in a compiler-checked subset of the language or express yourself in the most clear or (if you don't care about maintainability) the most expressive, creative way possible.
It has amazing libraries for network access and databases. It sets the standard for text processing. It's been an integral part of usable Unix installations for years. You can find it just about everywhere, and you can do just about anything with it.
Hey, what the hell, man? Wasn't, like, everyone bashing Perl?
Just kidding, of course. My limited experience with Perl is "Wow, seriously? That easy?" after hours of gazing at code and docs.
Is Beijing controlling even this aspect of the Olympics? I thought censoring of free speech and the media was the only thing they were censoring!
This has nothing to do with the Olympics being held in Beijing. The Code of Points has been revised in 2006 and has been already used at the European Championships recently.
I haven't even reached 30, and I already feel like I'm getting old:)
I'll be 20 in a few months and also feel old. Seriously though, I value the asynchronus nature of email and even when I use IM I try to write full words and use punctuation. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned:-)
This has to be strongly related to recent EU regulations regarding Microsoft; okay, so they're no longer recent, but they recently threatened to enforce them.
a parallel would be if the local pizza company offered to sell you a pizza for half price, but only if you delivered a pizza to another customer whilst you're at it.
No, that's not a valid parallel. With p2p you are not tempted to eat the pizza on the way;)
What would you recommend for developing web applications on *nix then?
What's wrong with Python or Perl? Honestly, I tried learning PHP for web scripting and it really sucked. Then I looked at the alternatives and I stuck with Python -- it's somehow cleaner than Perl and more powerful than PHP. Sure, it takes a bit of work to get Python and CGI up and running, but it's definitely worth it for the non-crappy, general purpose programming language.
Just my $.02
That's right, they are going to have to figure out someway to improve Windows XP.
And why would that be hard? How about including a sane, native and not broken permissions system and true multi-user support for starters? Honestly, just because it is most widely used doesn't make XP the best.
If you want to quickly put together a site because your purpose isn't actually maintaining the site but putting up some content, use PHP.
If you want to find out your innocent and well-intended site was hacked, use PHP/MySQL and don't take the time to read up on security. How long before people realise that simply making it work isn't enough to keep hackers and the like away? The ease of use in PHP and MySQL gets people all euphoric and sloppy. But I'm probably barking at the wrong tree, since parent has proved knowledgeable in his exposition.
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Of course not, they will scroll flawlessly across the retina display.
Hey, what the hell, man? Wasn't, like, everyone bashing Perl? Just kidding, of course. My limited experience with Perl is "Wow, seriously? That easy?" after hours of gazing at code and docs.
This has nothing to do with the Olympics being held in Beijing. The Code of Points has been revised in 2006 and has been already used at the European Championships recently.
And by posting in this thread you have made that invalid as well: modding + posting afterwards == 0.
I'll be 20 in a few months and also feel old. Seriously though, I value the asynchronus nature of email and even when I use IM I try to write full words and use punctuation. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned :-)
I don't understand 70% of the changes listed and don't care about/don't use the rest of them. I know, I know... I must be new here. *sigh*
Yes, but marying a cell phone and two cameras is 3G. What is the world coming too?
This has to be strongly related to recent EU regulations regarding Microsoft; okay, so they're no longer recent, but they recently threatened to enforce them.
Real men just type Hello World! at the prompt, instead of writing a program for it, compiling and running it.
Dude, don't be evil. Think of the corporations! ;)
If you want to find out your innocent and well-intended site was hacked, use PHP/MySQL and don't take the time to read up on security. How long before people realise that simply making it work isn't enough to keep hackers and the like away? The ease of use in PHP and MySQL gets people all euphoric and sloppy. But I'm probably barking at the wrong tree, since parent has proved knowledgeable in his exposition.