<humble><opinion>
   I will start off by saying i have done very little with PHP, but from what i have seen it is very good for CGI, but i have yet to see it used for non-CGI programming. This makes me wonder, am i the only non-CGI Perl programmer ? Do others not have batch processes ? hmmm ... i would wonder.
   Let us not forget, that while Perl is good for CGI, there was perl prior to CGI.pm, and it's uses span farther. I think the right tool for the job is always important, and sometimes i guess perl is a bit much (so, no need to load the perl interpreter to move one file from cron, shell might be better). If PHP is quicker for CGI, i do not contsest, but remember that the power of a language can come in handy during the scaling times. So, in short, i am sure people will argue this until they are a nice shade of maroon, and this will become a post as long as the Amazon, but if PHP is a better tool for the job, use it, but be mindfull (always) of the flexability of the solutions chosen.
</opinion></humble>
Thus spake the Master Programmer:
"When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave."
-- The Tao of Programming

In reply to Re: PHP vs. Perl for the 10,000th time by MZSanford
in thread PHP vs. Perl for the 10,000th time by kha0z

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