My take:
PHP -
many glorious "built-in" functions
easily embedded into HTML
simple to learn, easy to read
simpler documentation
very fast
practically made for database driven sites
more lengthy than perl
weaker system commands
at home on any system
Perl -
many glorious "modules"
difficult to learn, but totally worth it
slightly complex documentation
more powerful than PHP
faster than PHP
not as quick for web development, but a bit more robust
more at home in *nix environment (could be wrong here...)
My background - PHP Web application developer - 3yrs
OOP-OOD - 2yrs
Perl Person - 2 yrs
On the whole, I use PHP for database driven web pages, and Perl for system
tasks, back-end applications, backups, etc...(everything else).
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hudec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Perl vs. PHP?
> Hi all,
>
> well I use Perl and sometimes PHP....differences for me are these...
>
> PHP is good for small web projects such as small e-commerce,
> guestbooks etc. applications.
>
> Perl is excellent for big web projects such as portals, mainly because
> it is more integrated into system than PHP, also you can use more
> system functions...etc. Oh, and i use Perl often in Linux
> administration to write scripts....currently we are developing
> standalone Windows application with GUI in Perl :))))
>
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> Best regards,
> Martin mailto:corwin@;corwin.sk
>
>
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