[prog] session management with Perl CGI scripts

[Michelle Murrain]

At 9:26 PM +1000 7/3/03, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
><aside>
>Strangely, what I've found with PHP is that it is so similar to perl in
>some respects that my usual method for learning a new programming
>language -- to buy an O'Reilly book and read it from cover to cover --
>has bored me so much to tears that my PHP book is gathering dust,
>unfinished. (sigh)  I know I have to get around to it, though, because
>it's those spots where it isn't like perl which are the ones I need to
>know... I wonder if anyone's written a PHP-for-Perl-programmers
>tutorial?
></aside>

PHP and perl are close enough that one is easy to learn if you know 
one already, and far enough apart to drive you crazy if you are 
coding in both. I find that when I do PHP projects, I have to focus 
totally on them, and do no perl programming (my main language) at the 
same time, of I will get kerfluxed, and make stupid mistakes.

My next language, I think, is going to be Python. I need a good kick 
in the rear in terms of grokking OO programming, and I think that 
will help a lot. Perl's OO programming is a bit too slippery for me 
to really "get it". I do it, but I don't feel like I really, deeply 
get in so that it comes easily to me.
-- 
.Michelle

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