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Not Inciting a Holy War, but.... You could also
check out php?. Personally, I use both PHP and
Perl, but if I was only going to learn one language,
I would pick Perl. PHP has a very limited application.
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Perhaps somewhere on the site we should create a site that holds all of the links that compare Perl and PHP, and Perl and Java, and Perl and COBOL, etc and make it node Perl vs. The World so people can just search for that and get the info they want.