well.. I have 6 years Perl.. but I don't do web design, and no PHP programmer has been me out of a position yet. I am not shooting down PHP, but Perl has many many advantages over PHP, but PHP is better for DB access via a web front. But Perl is better at backend access and overall reporting (not DB reports alone). It's just not a dead or dying language. I think with Perl 6 it will have much renewed vigour.
Remember all languages have there advantages and disadavantages. [rant] C/C++: number crunch/OS masters Perl: parsing masters PHP: DB/CGI masters VB: GUI masters [/rant] > -----Original Message----- > From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:13 PM > To: 'Nikola Janceski'; Camilo Gonzalez; 'Fred Sahakian'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: < > Subject: RE: What database would your recommend? > > > Forgive me Nikola. In this business you need to stay as marketable as > possible. I don't want to go to a potential employer with six > years of Perl > on my resume, to be beaten out by somebody with 2 years of > PHP on theirs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:06 AM > To: 'Camilo Gonzalez'; 'Fred Sahakian'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: < > Subject: RE: What database would your recommend? > > > Perl a dying language? > > are you nutz?!?!?! > > Haven't you been reading the Apocalypse pages for PERL 6??!?!? > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/ apocalypse 1-4 > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html apocalypse 5 (pattern > matching will never be the same) > > I get a w**dy just thinking about it. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:57 AM > > To: 'Fred Sahakian'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: < > > Subject: RE: What database would your recommend? > > > > > > That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl > > over using > > PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:52 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: < > > Subject: Re: What database would your recommend? > > > > > > depends what you need to do, PHP has become VERY popular > > > > >>> "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/05/02 10:58PM >>> > > Hi all, > > > > I want to start learning a database that works with Perl but > > I would like to > > learn a database that works under Windows and Unix also. > > > > Is there such a thing? > > Of course, I would like to learn something as simple as > > possible because I > > am a beginner in Perl. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Teddy, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > -------------------- > The views and opinions expressed in this email message are > the sender's > own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit > Systems Inc. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]