>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Wilcox <[email protected]> writes:
Simon> PHP solved the problem of making web-based applications easy to Simon> install. Something that all the 'big brains' of Perl still Simon> haven't solved. Ease of installation leads to ease of Simon> adoption. Hence why PHP has hammered Perl into the ground for web Simon> apps. I would humbly disagree here. PHP won because Perl's equivalent (mod_perl) cannot be "dumbed down" enough to run in a shared hosting environment. Perl is just too powerful. And even though the big boys didn't care that they'd need their own servers and deployed mod_perl on all the major web sites, the moms and pops wanted shared hosting, and got it... with PHP. Same reason MySQL wins the hearts of the moms and pops, and PostgreSQL isn't there... again because of shared hosting. So the real blame is on shared hosting, not the 'big brains' of Perl. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
