Re: Perl vs PHP and the Future

... and with most applications these days being written in PHP ..

Citation required.

Will (Perl) ever take over PHP or has that particular battle been lost?

Citation required to back up premise that Perl has 'lost' a particular battle, and that Perl and PHP are even competing in the same areas of endeavour.

I notice this website is exactly the same as it was 2 years ago too, hehe so I guess the web2.0 thing hasn't quite hit these dusty corridors (it's quite refreshing in some ways).

It looks the same, but new content is arriving daily -- this user community is also thriving. There have been a few improvements in the last 2-3 years, but Perlmonks has not been dressed up in Web2.0 finery -- but that's OK, because it's never been about the eye candy, but about the community and the content.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^2: Perl vs PHP and the Future by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 20, 2007 at 21:37 UTC
About a 1/4 million nodes have been added, 2300 patches to the PM code have been submitted and about 22,000 users have joined PerlMonks in the last three years. Other statistics can be viewed at http://tinymicros.com/pm/?goto=MainPage. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^3: Perl vs PHP and the Future by naikonta (Curate) on Jun 21, 2007 at 02:40 UTC
Thank you, GrandFather, for bringing up these fantastic numbers, I've been wondering myself but didn't have a clue how to find it out. I'm really glad to see it. I (kind of) left Perl too (due to unfortunate situation), once, for about three years. And in that period, I did PHP (the programmers I led couldn't be upgraded higher) for one or two projects, but I still used Perl for automating some tasks. I was involved in a Java project, but fortunately, wasn't forced to code in it. My roles in this project were system designer and QA. When I managed to get myself back, I was suprised to see a lot of things had happened, in the Internet and the Perland. It's all exciting. But as far as I can see, nothing really new that Perl can't handle. Most of bad things people talk about Perl are not far from myths to spread FUD, just like this one. Are you going to contribute to the mud? Some Perler did the best to clean up the mess other person threw. So the only thing Perl is lost is that the number of people that say offensive things about other languages. Update: (21-06-2007) Fixed link to the myths. Thanks, blazar :-) Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!	[reply]
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Re^2: Perl vs PHP and the Future by ysth (Canon) on Jun 22, 2007 at 00:55 UTC
... and with most applications these days being written in PHP .. Citation required. Or even "provide proof or retract".	[reply]
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