Forum Moderators: coopster
well that would depend on the skills of the programmer
I have scrape and spidered and parsed and ripped in php, I haven't had any issues.
If I was going to make a heavy duty spider would I write it in php, probably not, I would probably write it in C but that would be a proper application as opposed to a collection of scripts. If I was munging huge amounts of data would I write it in php, maybe, would depend on the situation. I have used perl to do some serious number crunching because it is better suited in some instances.
though on the other hand I have yet to find a use for cfm, asp, .NET anything but maybe that's just me. There forte seems to be unknown and somewhat undefinable. ;)
As with anything, right tool for the job.
When you say poor substitute, what do you figure would be the answer or are you just wondering?
