From: "Zachary P. Landau" <kapheine@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T07:24:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:04:07AM +0900, Chris Dutton wrote:
> Zachary P. Landau wrote:
> >I think one thing people like about PHP is it comes with a lot of
> >built-in functions for dealing with Web-related problems.  It might be
> >an interesting project for someone to make a list of common PHP
> >functions used in web developments, with their Ruby equivalent
> >(including what library it comes from).=20
>=20
> Or even going a step farther, create a module that's nothing but=20
> wrappers around those methods/classes.
>=20
> require "php-transition"
>=20
> plain =3D base64_decode(source)
> # actually is:
> # plain =3D Base64::decode64(source)
>=20
> Though I have a feeling that having both PHP and Ruby targetting Parrot=
=20
> would make this significantly easier, as long as the PHP functions are=20
> implemented in a modular way.

As helpful as that may be to people, one of PHPs major problems (as
someone mentioned) is namespaces.  I would hate to bring that over to
Ruby.  It would be better to teach people to do it properly.

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