I don't know if it is the phase of the moon or what, but a lot of the
lists I lurk on lately have been talking about Perl and not in a good way
at all. The following is from the mySQL list where a user asked if PHP or
Perl would be better for his website....this one was the most interesting
but ALL but one said "PHP".
e.
*>Harald,
*>> PHP is hardly ever used outside of web programming, whereas Perl is a
*>general-purpose high-level programming
*>> language which can be used for almost everything.
*>
*>Presumably you are pushing Perl, but if you *want* to do web programming,
*>then there's no compelling reason why you would want to use Perl over PHP4.
*>
*>PHP4 has some features that lend itself particularly to the job that it's
*>solving, is reportedly less resource hungry and more efficient than perl,
*>and has several components, some provided for free, that will speed it up
*>considerably over perl and previous versions of PHP.
*>
*>Also, PHP is perfectly up to the task of solving many problems that one
*>might write in perl or some other language. To include some vague MySQL
*>relevance in what is after all a MySQL group and not a PHP forum!, last
*>sunday I wanted to test out MySQL's feasibility for a document search
*>engine, so I knocked together the DB schemas and wrote the text indexing
*>program in PHP for the hell of it. It was pretty quick, and did the job just
*>fine. I could have written it in perl, C++, Java, ..., but for what I
*>wanted, PHP did the job just as well as any of them.
*>
*>And the not suprising conclusion btw., was that MySQL kicked ass! Although
*>only on 10,000 documents, and around 4 million indexed words, but it was
*>very quick.
*>
*>Nick
