Was that really necessary? He came to a site filled with fanatical Perl lovers and asked about a project to increase the visibility of Perl and got called an idiot for his trouble.

You listed a project that uses Perl, do you really think that's an answer to the "every decent piece of web software is written in PHP" argument? If your boss was deciding which language to use for a project, do you think "some guys in the Human Genome Project once used Perl" will sway him?

• I can name 5 PHP forum systems off the top of my head, and one of those replaced the Perl version (UBB).
• I know of exactly 2 sites that use the Everything Engine and I think I've seen 3 that run on Slashcode.

So how do you explain that? Why do people consistently choose PHP over Perl?

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