Comments on: Comparison: Ruby vs PHP, the Pros

By: EllisGL

EllisGL — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:20:56 +0000

I was thinking PEAR is a con..

By: Fred Wu

Fred Wu — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:07:11 +0000

Thanks Shadowhand, I’ve updated the post to include reference to PEAR and PECL. As for the regex, it isn’t a huge deal hence why I only mentioned it at last, the reason why I have put it there is because Ruby’s OO nature makes regex more tightly integrated with other aspects of the language. :)

By: shadowhand

shadowhand — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:08:00 +0000

You also forgot to mention PEAR and PECL as features of PHP.

By: shadowhand

shadowhand — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:04:37 +0000

What do you mean by Regular Expression built into the language core? PHP has this regex built in using PCRE and EREG.

Also, you failed to mention the best feature of PHP: It scales.