I used to exclusively use Perl for CGI, but I've found that PHP is much more useful for that application. (IMHO -- don't bother flaming me about this; I've been on both sides of the fence, and I'm not coming back)

This deeply saddened me, because Perl is such a strong, useful language... so now, I've been forcing myself to use Perl in many other ways, and I've been reaping the benefits. For example, I've written a few applications that write PHP for me. (and in turn, the PHP writes SQL, HTML, JavaScript... and more PHP... yes, a couple of my coding engines write recursively)

Whenever I need a number of files edited, I use Perl. In short, whenever I need anything that would normally take more time than thought, I use Perl to reverse the thought:time ratio.

In reply to Re: Re: Are we obsessed with CGI? by mortenal
in thread Are we obsessed with CGI? by rinceWind

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