First post
So, I’ve finally got a personal home on the web again. The last effort (eae.net/me) quickly sized to capture my attention and about a month after I started it everything, but the gallery, was removed.
Lets hope this site can outlive it’s predecessor (shouldn’t be too difficult).
Anyway, I’m using WordPress to publish this, and although it’s written in PHP (which’s syntax I despise) I’m quite satisfied with it.
The site still has quite a few rough edges and a severe lack of content, but I believe that a bit of time will change all that. Originally I had planed to launch this site about a month ago, but work has kept me quite busy.
Been pulling long hours lately trying to finish a system, that we’ve sold to a (telecom) carrier in Pakistan. before we ship it, so that I won’t have to go there and tweak the last bits on site.
However it turns out that I’ll probably have to go anyway, so right now I’m filling out a bunch of forms to apply for a visa, don’t you just love legal forms?
October 15th, 2004 at 10:41
Hmmm… you like the Perl syntax but despise the PHP syntax? Although I’ mwith you with PHP I think I’m too biased towards the Java syntax camp.
October 15th, 2004 at 18:38
Yeah, it may sound a bit strange but I believe that PHP combines the worst part of the perl syntax with the worst of the JSP/ASP one, ignoring the good parts. For instance perl style regular expressions are supported, but not the regex operators. And then I really dislike the whole tag/code mixing deal.
In JSP you can combine JSP with servlets and beans to separate the logic from the jsp templates, in ASP COM components could be used but in PHP everything has to be in a php file.
I should also confess that the syntax is not what I like about perl, it’s the flexibility, the good regex support and the vast collection of modules (you really can’t match CPAN). When it comes to syntax I much prefer C++, and now days most things I do is in that language.