in reply to php, eh?

PHP is certainly powerful. It has much of the functionality of Perl. While both languages overlap somewhat, I think PHP has more of a niche in web applications.

PHP is good for dynamic websites that need to be deployed quickly. With a little regex work and perl script or two you can even convert existing sites to PHP. Howerver, I think on larger deployments PHP pages can become harder to manage (templating may help this).

Perl is still the swiss army knife of scripting languages. Whether your site is big or small Perl will easily handle you requirements.

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

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Re^2: php, eh?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2002 at 20:27 UTC
    With a little regex work and perl script or two you can even convert existing sites to PHP.
    That alone speaks volumes, in my opinion.. You can just as easily convert to TT2 templates and stick with the language you're familiar with. Add Apache::Template on a mod_perl enabled server to the mix and you can do anything PHP can and then some in the same fashion - or any other fashion you choose to.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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