I know I'll burn in hell for this :) but I just could not resist temptation to troll on PHP vs. Perl topic. You know, last months I've participated in couple of PHP projects and my frustration shows.

PHP has one central website for news, documentation, downloads, etc (php.net). Perl websites are scattered all over the place: perldoc, useperl, perlfaq, etc.

Show me central website for PHP modules downloads (similar to CPAN). There is no such beast (and no, small collections of PHP libs on PEAR doesn't count).

PHP is very easy to install. mod_perl is not.

This was commented in other subthread. If you forgot to compile in support for, say MySQL, you have to recompile PHP. Well, actually there is exist a way to compile support for it separatly afterwards but I would not call it simple.

PHP is open source, but has significant corporate backing (i.e, Zend) that Perl lacks

So what? Perl can be successful without any corporate backing.

The PHP community is trying hard to make the next version of PHP a worthy contender to Java in the Enterprise world. The Perl6 community could care less.

Perl5 is already there.

PHP makes the easy things even easier.

Not it my experience though.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by IlyaM
in thread Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by vladb

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