> 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.
I should say I use PHP as well so I'm not total PHP virgin! I use phpbb for some customers and it is quite sexxy! I just do a lot of, email parsing and high end web based database front and back ends and prefer perl for those tasks although I know PHP handles MySql quite well. Ok I'll shut up now since evryone's probably tired of my rantings! > > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
