On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Dan Muey wrote:
Like I said, a very informative happy thread! Peace to everyone!! I love all people, I just use Perl.
Indeed. As I noted in my disclaimer, I use Perl as well (quite happily). They are both good languages, and they both have the toolset to tackle most problems. 'Should I use X or Y' should either be a personal comfort decision (based on the language you know or want to know), or an institutional decision (based on your programming resources, legacy code, political motivations, star signs, or what have you.)
Of course this is a Perl list, so in many ways you (the original author) are in effect asking 'is Perl and appropriate tool for X'. And the answer seems to be yes (I hope so - my business is based on it. :)
I'm not really sure about the 'greater foothold' thing. Since yahoo is using it we'll never hear the end of that one!
The netcraft results are pretty telling. This is just for web of course (and I don't think anyone would argue with Perl being a leading if not the leading systems scripting language, with PHP being nowhere on that map currently).
I'd agree with George :
- they benchmark similar
- depends on what you're comfortable with
Thanks for your input George, I apologize if I came across badly to you!
Not at all! Just pointing out that there is spin placed by users of both. I would agree that PHP users have a higher zealot factor in general.
George
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