[thelist] Perl vs. Other tech

[MILLER David R.]

Here's a recent article on Perl vs. PHP.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19912.html
(BTW, my vote goes to Perl, because it's such an amazingly flexible
technology.)

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Original message:
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:27:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom Dell'Aringa" <pixelmech at yahoo.com>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Perl vs. Other tech
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org

Hey All,

A client and I were having a small discussion about Perl and how it
compares with PHP, ASP and JSP middleware. We are doing this job with
Perl, and it seems to me its a real pain to do a lot of things that
are just super simple in PHP for example.

Like we had to trim a field of blank characters, and in Perl you have
to regex it, in PHP you simply use the trim method.

Also, everything on the client side is hard coded (we aren't using
SSI) so I have header code on 20+ pages that I have to constantly
make changes to across the board. Aside from the obvious waste of
time, etc that things like that provide, can people weigh in on the
pro's and cons of these techs? It seems to me that Perl is a bit
outdated - and I do understand that it can be *very* powerful for
some things.

We are also of course using a database too, and I don't know how well
Perl interacts with DBs at all.

Tom