Academics are such multipliers teaching classes for hordes of students.

Most have no time for bless and dozens of competing approaches if they are offered a standard solution.

I disagree on what succeeds and how. PHP succeeded in spades and it’s trash. I think it falls to marketing and, like I harp, applications and deployability. Perl, with its multiplicity of syntax and approach has no chance of ever being a favorite of modern academics; though I believe it to be a superior teaching language for its ease of entry, flexibility, and multi-paradigm support.

Never used PHP, can't tell if it's "trash" or if we are treating PHP the way pythonistas are treating us. (Pythonistas probably just stole our propaganda?)

What I know is that PHP has function signatures and an standard OOP system.

But my point was addressing multipliers , PHP wasn't chosen by academics but web-server admins.

Perl is competing simultaneously on different markets with different target audiences.

There is no one fits all strategy.

Cheers Rolf
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