Security is mostly independent of the actual language. From time to time, there might be vulerabilities in the underlieing language interpreter, but I think it would be hard to make an objective comparison between Perl and PHP that way. In either case, the most common source of security problems by far will be in the code being executed, not the interpreter. That means your security will be almost entirely dependent on your programmers.

Note that in mod_perl, you have access to the underlieing Apache API, which mod_php does not provide. This increases the risk of bad code producing a security problem. However, this doesn't mean Perl/mod_perl is insecure; it only means that there is even more burden on your programmers to do a good job.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
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In reply to Re: Security - Perl or PHP? by hardburn
in thread Security - Perl, PHP or ASP? by webstudioro

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