Re: Perl or PHP?

Lior wrote:
> Probably one of the ancient questons in Internet history: what scripting
> language should I use - PHP or Perl? (I'm not mentioning even ASP...)

I used Perl before (two years ago). But since then, I almost exclusively use PHP; I consider PHP a much nicer language. Perl has a lot of subtle and illogical language constructs that only Perl enthusiasts like.

But it really depends on what you want to do. Related to Perl is a great, enormous library of code that you may use. It's called CPAN, and it means that there is a good chance of finding helper-modules no matter how weird your project is: http://www.cpan.org/

For PHP, a similar distributed code library has been planned (called "PEAR"), but it hasn't really taken off yet.

ASP is not an option, I think. It's too locked into the frustrating Windows platform. Cross-platform development is a safer choice.

By the way: Don't forget to consider JSP. The biggest problem with JSP is probably that it's still very hard to find people with extensive JSP experience (there are lots of Java programmers, but few sysadms with JSP experience).

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