On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:38:08 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Octavian Rasnita)
wrote:

>I think the reason why PHP is used more and more much than Perl is that for
>CGI related programs it is much simpler to use than perl.

I don't mess around with php, but I do follow the discussions of it's
merits vs. perl on http://perlmonks.org. 

I've been able to synthesize this from all the discussions:

PHP will give you the same performance benefits as using mod-perl.

PHP's drawback is that you are learning a language that can only be
used for web programming.

So well written mod-perl is comparable to PHP. I think the allure of PHP
is that it is probably easier for a beginner to learn, but it is a
dead-end, because you can't use it outside of web programming.
And as most perl programmers know, web programming is only a tiny
part of the usefulness of perl.....sysadmin scripts, text processing,
task automation,etc.





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