[TAG] More spam than content?

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Thomas Adam wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:08:48AM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
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>>>Whups! [sound of me running away] :)
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>>Huh?
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>I'm the same. I don't like php, and would rather use cgi (or in my
>case mod_ruby)....
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Ah. I thought it was horror at the very idea of doing something like 
that. Well, I wouldn't rate PHP too highly as a language, but back when 
I did web design it was part of the spec on enough jobs that I stuck to 
it. Ruby looks nice, but it wouldn't have been an option back then, as 
too much of the stuff I had to do was for sites hosted on Cobalt RaQs, 
which didn't come with a compiler, so I was stuck with what came with 
the box - PHP or Perl - I still get nightmares about the time I had to 
tamper with Sendmail - the box didn't have the M4 files (probably didn't 
have M4, for that matter). I was put off Perl for years after trying to 
learn how to do CGI when I was in college, as the tutorials I read 
thought manually processing form data was OK, and I didn't.