Nick Hilliard wrote:
"PHP stinks on the command line and text processing"
This is a bit of a broad sweeping statement! Can you elaborate on what your definition of how PHP "stinks" in this context? We have dozens of CLI scripts all written in PHP, some of which have been running for years and never given us any grief. We specifically chose PHP as the scripting language to standardize on to replace PERL because it was simple to learn and extremely powerful. I came from a PERL (and C/Pascal/Assembler) background so I found the PHP language stylings a natural fit when I discovered it in 2001, and have been using it for most of my scripting needs ever since. PHP adopts a lot of "PERL-isms" which I find very comfortable. Occasionally I do hear of someone deriding PHP, and naturally I would like to hear their side of the story. Often, I find it is due to lack of experience with PHP CLI scripting, or perhaps just PHP's capabilities in general. M