Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP

On Jun 16, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:

>
> On Saturday 16. June 2007 23:34, Erick Papadakis wrote:
>> How much value you derive from a language
>> depends on how you use it. After playing for years with Perl, and now
>> with Python and Ruby, I think PHP is still where it's at.
>
> I too have played around with Perl and Python, and use both of them
> for
> special jobs, but I'm writing my dynamic web pages in PHP. In
> hindsight, I might have been better off writing them in Perl, but I
> was
> put off by the lousy HTML generated by the CGI module. It doesn't even
> close paragraphs. PHP doesn't have anything like the CGI.pm, but I'm
> quite content with hand coding where every single HTML tag should go.

Have you tried:
print $q->p("This is a paragraph");
recently?
Does a nice job of closing paragraphs.