Just an small comment to don't misunderstand my opinion, i'm not talking about difference between PEAR and CPAN, is really imposible compare one to another, becouse CPAN have a lot years of great contributions and 15228 modules today!! against 528!! of PEAR...

I'm talking about the built-in function/modules that make PHP more easy and functional to use without error, it self, or at least with less error, in fact this made the difference between a web lenguage, worst or better i don't know, and a multi purpouse language like Perl.

But by far the documentation is the great difference just put www.php.net/thecommandtoseethedocumentation and you can see a brief and useful description in your language with several, no good but useful too, comment below, i don't know for me is an advantage

And yes like Your Mother said, Perl is better has many resource of search information, modules and you can find help like Perlmonks, but instead it, PHP grow up much faster, why? becouse is more easy and is focus in certain point, web developement, i guess.

In reply to Re^3: PHP over perl by way
in thread PHP over perl by targetsmart

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