thanks, everyone. wikipedia is indeed a first goto source for me before I investigate anything further.

I played with mojo 3 years ago and thought it was very clever. too clever for my needs. sometimes simple is good.

the "many choices" is not always the best. I think this is why php survived. there was no one single perly choice with good prospects. (there are many abandoned projects; building a website requires betting on the underlying framework.) of course, at some point below, variety must stop. perl would not have succeeded with 20 projects. there is one perl5 project and one perl6 project.

so, if I start now, let's say I want a php-like embeddable scripting language that has:

  1. a project with more than 5 core developers and likely survival for a decade.
  2. perl6 syntax and perl6 cpan
  3. $_SESSIONS[]
  4. easy ubuntu install
is there a project that checks these four boxes? mojo? /iaw

In reply to Re^3: perl as a php alternative by iaw4
in thread perl as a php alternative by iaw4

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