I know you're right Dave. But, if I'm going to use a scripting language to write an app, I want one that is either a) fun and easy to write and read, or b) built for the web. For me, those two are Ruby and PHP respectively. I know many very successful web apps have been written in perl, and maybe it's been too long since I've done any Perl that's my problem. I've just spent too much time trying to figure out what someone did in Perl to want to use it for anything other than it's extremely powerful text processing and fast RegEx. That is, after all, what it was built to do. I also find it difficult to find hosting, not who offer Perl, but who are good about installing CPAN modules. In doing advanced perl stuff you'll need some, and if they're not there it can be a pain. I haven't had that trouble with PHP, though I'm sure it's a possibility.
On 11/22/06, Dave Cardwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it that you don't "feel right"? I know Perl-ites tend to trot out > Amazon, IMDB, LiveJournal, Slashdot and so on as examples of Perl users, > but sites like del.icio.us, IUseThis, Vox and so on show that it's still > alive and well as a web development platform today. Especially with > frameworks like Catalyst (http://catalyst.perl.org/), "agile > development" is certainly a very real possibility. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
