I'm in a situation where there are a small number of people looking to
migrate a large well-traveled website from their current host (which is
on NT and makes extensive use of .asp, and ms-sql), to a red-hat linux
box of their own making, running apache, php, and mysql. I'd already
coded up a number of enhancements to the original site within the past
year, only to hit the stumbling block of having the current host
unwilling to make the *slightest* effort at upgrading the perl
installation or modules on their sole unix box (they have 30 or so NT
boxes).
I'm very eager to leverage my perl expertise and effort, particularly as
I really need to be able to show some of the work I've done running in a
high-profile, oft-traveled website, in order to gain more clients, and
improve on their confidence in my ability.
The problem is, that with the exception of one of the admins, who IS a
perl fanatic like myself, everyone else seems to be of the mind that
there's nothing that Perl can do that php cannot, and that php will be
near-infinitely faster than perl (they won't be installing mod_perl as
they seem to feel that it's a VERY intensive processor hog). Another of
the admins is a very serious php programmer, and damned good at what he
does, AND he has the ear of the box's owner, and downplays Perl every
chance he gets.
I DON'T have the unix experience I need nor the background to refute any
of these claims, being primarily a Mac user and programmer (using
MacPerl currently for prototyping and debugging my perl), athough I AM
trying to get as much as I can, and indeed have some small experience
already... just not from an admin perspective. (but I have a friend who
is building me a box, with redhat or some other distro, so I'll have
something to play with eventually).
I need some ammunition. what have you got that I can really *use* here?
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