{"id":1727,"date":"2004-09-27T22:14:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2004-09-27T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T02:14:04","slug":"poorly-hacked-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/poorly-hacked-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"Poorly Hacked Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, I&#8217;m gaining more than a sneaking admiration for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/\">PHP<\/a>, the web application language that <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.menalto.com\/\">Gallery<\/a> are written in. It does remind me of an even more hacked-together version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.org\/\">Perl<\/a>, but if it works well, well&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>I looked for books, but they seemed to be out of date or very expensive, or both. So I&#8217;m sticking with the online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/\">PHP Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, I&#8217;m gaining more than a sneaking admiration for PHP, the web application language that WordPress and Gallery are written in. It does remind me of an even more hacked-together version of Perl, but if it works well, well&nbsp;&hellip; I looked for books, but they seemed to be out of date or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[187,759],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-perl","tag-php"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-rR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}