Thanks, jaldhar and perrin!

That's some pretty amazing stuff you have done with Perl, jalhar. Unfortuanately, my skills as a programmer aren't anywhere near any of those things. I don't know why so many people think CGI and Perl are the same thing, or that Perl is only used for the Web. As you have demonstrated, Perl is much larger than that!

perrin, I didn't know that many shared hosts ran PHP as CGI, although, it does make more sense, now that you mention it. My favorite aspect of Perl is Regexps, and although I'm not too good with them yet, I think they are implemented in the best way for Perl. I'm using PHP on my site right now, because I seem to be better at it for now. On my local server, when Perl was running, I usually come up with ideas and implement them in Perl.

PHP isn't just for the Web either, it has a nifty extension of itself called PHP-GTK, which is for writing desktop apps. I have never used it; just read about.

Thanks, guys!

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In reply to Re^2: Not Everyone Likes Perl, I Guess by dyer85
in thread Not Everyone Likes Perl, I Guess by dyer85

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