Yeah I hadn't realised quite the reaction I would get... (Oops think before posting next time!) hehe ah well. I think it's raised some interesting opinions though. I agree that PHP is a very mass produced kind of language, and Perl has more down and dirty flexibility perhaps. Infact if I ever have any server side processing jobs etc to do i'd always go with Perl (for the record).

Thanks for all the links though, interesting stuff, I have a bit of catching up to do, and sorry again for the explosive / irritating nature of my question!