Dearest monks,

A couple of friends and I are about to develop a website for a French non-profit organization and we're arguing about which language to use.
Here are our language options : The latter is preferred so far due to its OOP structure, and Python is second favorite as it seems to be rather common in the Linux world (I'm a Windows dude, I wouldn't know)

I personally believe Perl is a good option as it has a big community online, this forum, ppm to add packages...

I'd like to know what is the share of perl in web programming versus the other two (plus PHP we set aside as not powerful enough). I'd like to know what would make Perl a language better than the other two.

Could anyone please help me out ?

In reply to Is Perl the most adequate language ? by Foggy Bottoms

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