RE: perl vs php. just the facts, ma'am.

[Selena Sol]

>>> Elaine said:
>>> I'm not convinced that a lack of advertising money is the reason why
Perl
>>> isn't as popular as Java or MS products.

>> Selena replied:
>> I disagree.  I would agree with Stas Bekman that the biggest thing that
can
>> be done for Perl advocacy is to find a big company to get behind it.

> Hasanuddin said:
> If Java has Sun behind, is it in the same sense that C has (again)
> Microsoft, Borland, or other compiler vendor behind?  If not, what
> makes it different between Perl and C in popularity while none of
> them really "owns" C?

I don;t think anyone needs to "own" the language.  They just have to put
marketing dollars behind it.  In this case, yes, Borland and Microsoft would
be equivalent to SUN.