Ok, almost a year later, I want to throw my comments in there...

I am a relativley NEW Perl programmer. I started learning Perl about 9 months to a year ago.

I have only modified a php script, I have not written any.

Speaking from OUTSIDE PHP looking in, and on the "outskirts" of Perl(not a Perl guru), I have seen ONE THING, that PHP does, that I have not yet seen Perl do.

PHPLive.
For those that do not know what that is, it's a Live Support helpdesk. It uses Javascript and PHP. The part I'm talking about, is how I can have my "console" open, which is NOT an applet, it's just a window, and I can leave it open forever, and my site will ALWAYS know that I have it open, so it says I'm online, or if one of my partners is on it, it says online. However, if I'm the only one, and I merely CLOSE the window, and then refresh my website, it KNOWS I've closed the window.

I have not seen perl be able to "call" a window, REMOTELY, that could be in china, and know that it's open or closed.

If Perl does it, I would LOVE to know the ways to make it work. I'm sure there are some kind of applets out there that can work, but to just use a ordinary window, it's amazing that it does that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Perl Guy, all the way. I have some many different sites, that I've built in Perl, that are getting better and better, as I learn more and more.

I just wish, I could create a Perl "live support" desk, like that PHPLive by OSICodes(open source industry codes).

That would rock.
(hint hint, if someone knows how to make Perl do something like that, please let me know)

That is they only REAL difference I see. I think that Perl has much better support, since it's been around much longer.

thx,
Richard

In reply to Re: Re: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by powerhouse
in thread Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by vladb

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