Murtaza A

Introductory Comparison- PHPandPython

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ApplesandOranges

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A little bit of history

A little bit of comparison

To py or not to py

Summary

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when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

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Personal Homepage

A little bit of history

Rasmus Lerdorf (1995) took Perl by the throat PHP 1&2

Andi Gutmans & Zeev Suraski (1997) took PHP by the throat PHP 3

Zend Core Engine (2000) PHP 4

Object-Oriented PHP (2004) PHP 5

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PHP Hypertext Processor

A little bit of history

PHP 5.3 supports scripting in multiple languages and namespaces

PHP 5.3 is fully x64 aware

PHP 6 is in parallel development

PHP is installed on more than 30,000,000 websites and 2,000,000 web servers

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Python

A little bit of history

Guido van Rossum (1980) took ABC by the throat Python 0.1

van Rossum (1991) opens up Python 0.9

Python 1.0 (1994) followed by GNU-compatible Python 1.6 (1998)

With Garbage Collector and Unicode Support (2000) Python 2.0

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Just Py

A little bit of history

Python Software Foundation (2001) owns rights to Python code v2.1a onwards

Python 3000 (2008) “reduce feature duplication by removing old ways of doing things”

Multi-paradigm (OO, Struct, Func)

Backwards Incompatibility

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What PHP can do

to py or not to py

Server Side Scripting

Command Line Scripting

Write Desktop Apps

Interface with RDBMS

Run on any OS or platform, free of charge

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Why PHP

to py or not to py

RAD with CakePhp, ZendFramework

Uses widely familiar C++ Syntax

The most popular web scripting language

Yahoo, Facebook, Joomla, Digg, Wikipedia, YouTube, WordPress, Tagged

FOSS

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What Py can do

to py or not to py

Server Side Scripting / CLS

Write Desktop Apps

Develop non-critical areas of Linux & Symbian

Write 2D/3D Apps (incl. Video Games)

Run on any OS or platform, free of charge

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Why Py

to py or not to py

RAD/Glue with Django, Zope

Combines Java, Haskell, Modula-3, Perl, C++

IronPython, Jython, CPython, Pyjamas

Yahoo, Google, Nokia, CERN, NASA, YouTube, BitTorrent

FOSS

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Apples

A little bit of comparision

Oranges

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Python PHP

• Python uses whitespace indentation • Codes with lots curly braces [{ }] and dollar signs [ $]

• Case Sensitive • PHP variable names are case sensitive, but the names of functions are case insensitive.

• Doesn’t support a native switch statement

•The 'switch' statement and 'do ... while' construct

•Clear, concise syntax •C++ style syntax

• Functions are declared with the "def" keyword.

• Functions often have prefixes to denote their source

•Duck Typing •Late Static Binding

A little bit of comparision

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Python PHP

•Strongly typed •Weakly typed

•General purpose language • Predominantly Web scripting langauge

•Java-style self-documenting (pyDoc) •No such documenting features (may be in PHP 6)

•Multiple inheritance •Supports Java-style ‘Trails’

• C++ style Operator overloading • Can be ‘emulated’ using compiler extensions

•Multi-threading •Threading may be introduced in PHP 6

A little bit of comparision

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