Why would I care what Slashdot says? I go here, not there. That having been said, PHP's ease of use means that most people are going to start with it rather than Perl, and even experienced Perl programmers may use it for small things, rather than going to the bother of messing with templates. The single best thing that could be done to popularize Perl to the masses would be to make Perl code embeddable in pages: 
My rocket ship goes:<br>
<?perl
print join ' ', reverse 'BLAST OFF!', 0..10;
?>

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This sort of format is really the only thing that makes PHP popular. If Perl could do that, I'd never touch PHP again. Also, someone needs to make an extended Perl install (and updater) that includes all the most popular modules not included in the standard install. Installing and updating modules can be a painful process, and programmers shouldn't have to worry about that side of things.

In reply to Re: Perl mindshare in web development by TedPride
in thread Perl mindshare in web development by gunzip

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