Monday, Monday, April 22, 2002, 7:11:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>2- Is there yet or will there ever be any other clients than Perl? I
> I also think php would be a better choice for the future for the following 
> reasons:

> - Perl is mainly based to the (very good) work of 1 Guru. Of course others
> are working on it, but there is not such a good comunication between the
> developper / co-developpers and end-users like it is in PHP

> - PHP is the result of a group of people, better organized, very well support
> (like f.ex. the http://php.net/anyfunction). And this group has the spirit
> to react to actual need and to wishes of the user community. Even if one of
> the core developpers will retire, PHP will go on. Whereas Perl in my opinion
> has already become to be a 'hobby' programming language. It is nice,
> but there is no more power to follow close to the need of the internet.
> So myself and lots of my collegues have abandonned any Perl.
> Young programmers do not learn any more much Perl. In a few years
> it will be difficult to find a young programmer who will be able make changes 

> to Perl for a reasonable price.

> - another advantage of PHP might be, that in my opinion the PHP developpers
> are closer following the developpement of MySQL, which is meanwhile
> vital for many web applications.


As someone who codes in both, almost daily, let me assure you, your
fears are unfounded with regard to perl.

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