i've brought back the Sucks-Rules-O-Meter for programming languages, along with some other goodies:
http://www.theperlreview.com/at_a_glance.html PHP has really shot ahead of Perl in terms of customer satisfaction (expressed on things that AltaVista can find). i've been talking to a lot of people about this lately, and most of them say the same thing---it's the quality of the docs. while Perl has a lot of reference documentation, it doesn't have the more pragmatic documentation that PHP has. not to fear. Casey West organized a new thing called the Perl Documentation Project (http://pdp.perl.org) which can help. one of the goals of PDP is to produce more goal-oriented docs. want to help out? :)
