[SunRescue] PHP3 questions

[Paul Khoury]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:53:50 -0400 (EDT), Dave McGuire wrote:

>On April 3, Paul Khoury wrote:
>> I always notice that there's PHP3 on sunhelp.org, but only know it's
>> used for databasing, right?
>> 
>> I was just wondering what are the benefits of it, how it improves a website, etc?
>> 
>> I decided for the heck of it to compile it into my Apache 1.3.12.
>
>  It's used for a lot more than database applications.  It's a scripting
>language that can be used for just about anything.  It's fast, easy to
>learn, and very flexible.  It's great when you want to do something
>that "ordinary" people might do with Perl/CGI, but you don't want the
>horrid slowness and general shittiness of Perl to get in the way. :)
>
>
I'm assuming this would be by way of security issues, etc?

Didn't realize that perl was that slow and that crappy.  How hard is it to learn the language?

Also, on the subject of scripting languages, what is a good book for shell scripts?