If you read carefully, I'm not bad-mouthing other languages. Other language. Specific. PHP. I'm not slagging Python, Ruby, or any other of the interpretive bretheren (although I admit to not liking them - Python's whitespace in particular is a deal breaker). PHP at a basic level is a similar language to Perl. PHP has emerged from a specific problem domain, and is now being thought of as a general purpose scripting language. My thoughts on PHP mirror RMS' thoughts on TCL - it seems to be a pointless diversion. If people think PHP is easier to learn than Perl, I think they're wrong. However, that can't be happening through critical analysis, because apart from the specific case of code-in-web-page, Perl wins over PHP. Something else is causing people to think PHP is more suitable for work than Perl, to the extent they discuss it as above.

In reply to Re: Re: Perl Popularity by kal
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