[Mapserver-users] Perl mapscript

[Palle Due Larsen]

I didn't see the original message, but here are my 2 cents anyway. I use
perl mapscript myself on both Linux and Windows, and I must say that
perl mapscript on NT is a real hazzle. If you will be using Windows, you
should go for PHP mapscript, which has a strong and dedicated community
behind it. Also - as Thorsten hints at - every perl programmer has
his/her own dialect, which makes perl programs hard to read. 

Best regards

Palle Due Larsen, Carl Bro GIS&IT


-----Original Message-----
From: Thorsten Fischer <thfischer at mapmedia.de>
To: Mark Balman <Mark.Balman at birdlife.org.uk>
Cc: "'mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu'"
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Date: 23 May 2003 15:51:12 +0200
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Perl mapscript

> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:00, Mark Balman wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I want to start using mapscript but would like to know which is the
> easier
> > for a beginner - Perl or PHP?
> 
> Contrary to what most people say, I think that perl is easy to learn.
> Reading the code afterwards poses the real problem ;)
> 
> Knowledge of Perl will likely make you more flexible because it is
> widely used in system administration and general scripting as well,
> while PHP is the most common choice for web applications (at least it
> appears to me that way).
> 
> In the end, it's a question of personal taste. I usually recommend to
> go
> to a bookstore, ask the shop person there for what they think is the
> best book covering each language, and then buy the one that appears
> nicer to them.
> 
> This only works with a shop person with clue of course ;)
> 
> If all this is sorted, mapscript is alike in either language.
> 
> 
> hth,
> 
> thorsten
> 
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