Jeremy D. Zawodny [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>Now, I'm one to defend Perl when it's being unfairly spoken of, but in
*>this case I don't see it. In that context, it seems just fine.
Indeed, but take my point. When asked, 10+ people piped up and said PHP,
not Perl and for a language that has always claimed CGI as its turf and
now is totally remaking itself, there may be some hard days ahead.
The question was simple, 'which should I learn, Perl or PHP3 or PHP4?' It
had nothing to do with mySQL or anything else and he received a number of
PHP book recommendations, etc. I thought it interesting.
*>FWIW, there is a lot of Perl related traffic on the MySQL list,
*>too. Many folks are using Perl/DBI with MySQL. They ask questions of
*>the list and generally get good answers. In fact, I've found that the
*>bulk of the regulars on the list have a good feel for when PHP or Perl
*>is the better tool for the job, and they do a decent job of taking
*>that into account with their answers.
I lurk and skim mostly so I don't know the whole context, but a few other
developer lists have been down on Perl lately so...who's to say what it
means but It doesn't appear to be a good thing.
e.
