Cyril

PHP does a good job of hiding much of the mechanics from the programmer, which is one reason it is so popular. But it doesn't take long before you realise that in fact it hides too much. All too often PHP has only one way to do it! Instead of the Perl way - Their is ALWAYS more than one way to do it.

Perl, with its seemingly endless variety of modules will give you so many more ways to do things, it will give you so much flexibility that it can be rather frightening. In fact it will offer you so many choices as to be totally confusing. Sometimes when asked what Perl has that PHP doesn't the reply is 'CPAN'. Many years of dedicated work by some great computing minds.

If you are writing CGI scripts then make sure you search here in the monastery and read some of the tutorials and responses addressing various aspects of that subject, they are a veritable gold-mine.

jdtoronto

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