Re:PHP, Perl, Haskell?
by debacle on Friday April 13, 2012 @04:08PM
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Which languages do you now know?
I would not recommend Haskell as it is a heavy lifting language, not really a scripting language. Perl is probably the strongest scripting language out there, and PHP is certainly the most ubiquitous web language out there. I learned Perl first, which made learning PHP super easy (you just have to unlearn a few things).
You can write scripts in both Perl and PHP, but web programming is definitely much easier in PHP. Try out both and see which one you like.
I would not recommend Haskell as it is a heavy lifting language, not really a scripting language. Perl is probably the strongest scripting language out there, and PHP is certainly the most ubiquitous web language out there. I learned Perl first, which made learning PHP super easy (you just have to unlearn a few things).
You can write scripts in both Perl and PHP, but web programming is definitely much easier in PHP. Try out both and see which one you like.