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Re: perl's forte

by revdiablo (Prior)
on Mar 19, 2004 at 07:07 UTC ( [id://337911]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to perl's forte

Other monks have already said everything I would say about why one should use Perl, but there's one thing I haven't seen much of a response to. You mention PHP "seem[ing]" like it is "now ... more popular than perl." My only response to that is, "Who cares?!?" I know I sure don't. Popularity only matters insomuch that there is a healthy community around a language. Perl still has a healthy community -- even in the "arena of CGI." (I put quotes around this because most PHP is probably not actually using CGI, and most sane Perl web apps shouldn't either.) This all leads me to my hyper-obvious conclusion: popularity sucks. Use what works.

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(OT) Re: perl's forte
by fireartist (Chaplain) on Mar 19, 2004 at 09:18 UTC
    What do you mean by "sane Perl apps shouldn't use CGI"?
    Only use modperl, or are you getting at something else?
      What do you mean by "sane Perl apps shouldn't use CGI"?

      Well, I guess "sane" might not have been the best choice of words. By that definition, I am not even sane myself. Of course, not many people would argue with me about that, so perhaps the word still makes sense. ;)

      Maybe I should have said, "for any Perl web apps where performance matters, sanity dictates the use of mod_perl instead of plain CGI. But for web apps where performance doesn't matter, CGI might be ok."

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