4 ms·5 lines in PHP, 70 in Perl? You are joking, surely?by cutler 4y ago5 lines in PHP, 70 in Perl? You are joking, surely?iamben 4y agoExaggerating slightly, perhaps. But yeah, PHP was massively simpler.cutler 4y agoMost PHP code I've seen is orders of magnitude more verbose than the Perl equivalent. Modern PHP is just pseudo-Java.iamben 4y agoI'm nowhere near qualified enough to make a comment on that in 2023. But standing by my point about 20 years ago.