Depends on the POV. If you're a programmer, sure Perl gives you better tools, if you're not biased. If you're just a wannawebpage newbie, things like lexical scoping with my, closures, map, grep, contexts and alike are things you can't imagine to be useful. You just want HTML escaping, mysql (and all other supported database drivers) all other tools you use stuffed right into the namespace of your mywebpage.php4.

Sure PHP has bigger usages and *is* and *can* be professionally used. But in my view that's neither the majority nor the part that started this hype.

Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley

In reply to Re^3: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by phaylon
in thread The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by Spidy

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