I can't see any benefits that speak for PHP for myself, but clearly there's a lot of people out there that do. And I believe it doesn't have to do a lot of PHP being "better" than Perl, or, for that matter, vice versa.

A lot of people comment, and I agree, on how they love Perl because it matches the way they think and solve problems so well. I guess it is only logical to conclude that there's a lot of people that find that PHP/Visual Basic/Java/C#/... match their way of solving problems well. They will find the problems you found with PHP insignificant, and instead will take issue with some things in Perl that never occured to you to think about.

Of course, deep inside I admit to thinking that Perl, after all, is better :). However, I find that when dealing with people that don't want to dabble with Perl for whatever reasons, it is not my attitude that convinces them -- but rather the way I use Perl to get the job done. And of course, sometimes there's situations where you just have to let people not use Perl.

In reply to Re: php + Smarty looks like CGI by crenz
in thread php + Smarty looks like CGI by Anonymous Monk

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