{"id":204,"date":"2003-04-28T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2003-04-28T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2003-04-28T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2003-04-28T09:01:09","slug":"porting-php-to-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/28\/porting-php-to-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"Porting PHP to Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am doing lots of perl programming these days. And there is yet lots more to come. I am currently porting most of my PHP code base to Perl. This provides a good practice, as well as code review and clean-up. Although, I know that porting is somewhat easier then developing from scratch (at least in my case), Perl still looks and feels much easier and, well, natural, then PHP. Maybe it’s because I am spending too much time at Perl Monks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I am doing lots of perl programming these days. And there is yet lots more to come. I am currently porting most of my PHP code base to Perl. This provides a good practice, as well as code review and clean-up. Although, I know that porting is somewhat easier then developing from scratch (at least … Continue reading Porting PHP to Perl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11461,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/12\/perl-vs-php-variable-scoping\/","url_meta":{"origin":204,"position":0},"title":"Perl vs. PHP : variable scoping","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've mentioned quite a few times that I am a big fan of Perl programming languge.\u00a0 However, most of my programming time these days is spent in PHP.\u00a0 The languages are often similar, with PHP having its roots in Perl, and Perl being such a influence in the world of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7402,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/30\/php-zopepython-and-perl\/","url_meta":{"origin":204,"position":1},"title":"PHP, Zope\/Python, and Perl","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 30, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an article at kuro5hin.net called \"Switching from PHP to Zope\/Python\". 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