Comparing PHP to a Perl CGI install is a bit flawed. To more accurately show the difference, you'd have to be comparing it to something like mod_perl + Mason. Mason example:
Actually it's quite a fair comparison. As I've stated before, it grows incrementally complex, differently organized and has some user facing architectual differences.

All you've shown here is a template system that uses perl, which php kinda is already as you've shown. But re-read my post. It's not about tempalting systems. It's ease of getting into it. Sure, I can install mason all over the place, but the subject here isn't just mason. It's perl vs php, where perl is a much larger subject than mason alone.

In reply to Re^3: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by exussum0
in thread The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by Spidy

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