> Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, > .asp, .dll, or something which says that they aren't perl. > Is there a reason more businesses and online companies don't use perl?
- People like to spend money for stuff for no goods reason. - Are those on servers you work with? Those specific ones may use those for whatever reason. - Some people I know paid to go to school for years to learn crap like asp so if they don't use it they look kind of silly. - *nix systems come with perl installed and use perl for lots of stuff, - Mis informed people - Perl is run as .cgi a lot of times so you may not notice it's Perl like you would the other kinds. - People look at something shiny and think it must be good. IE(PHP people use CSS to make the utput of their scripts look very sharp, so people assume it must be good, but PHP has so many issues (Don't even get me started or I'll never shut up ;p) I can't stand to use it and when forced to (customer wants PHPBB or something) it ALWAYS a chore to make it work right. PHP people say "IT runs fast" well use mod_perl and Perl will be faster than PHP and still be way more flexable and usefull.) Same principle applies to most other kinds as well. Perl is all I use backend and frontend, and I mange a dozens of servers, networks, and services for variose isp's and internet service companies Around the united states. Perl can do about anythign you want, (I haven't found one practical job I needed to do I couldn't do with Perl) So the short answer is: There is no good reason, if they knew what was good for them and what could boost reliablity, productivity, etcc whiel decreasing costs, time, and resources. HTH DMuey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
