This is the reason I've began to learn perl and not PHP, but for CGI programs I found that PHP might be easier. I know that PHP is much more limited even for CGI programs than perl, but for simple tasks it is much better. And... most CGI programs are not extremly complicated.
Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "zentara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:43 PM Subject: Re: PHP vs Perl 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. -- 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]
