I'm sure it is. This has been discussed on this list before: PHP in safe mode is much more likely to be found on the offerings of virtual hosting companies, which tend to use control panel things like Plesk, Ensim, or RAQ boxes. If you do get mod_perl you don't get to play with everything, it usually just means you get to run stuff in Registry. Therefore most people will get to play in PHP and do projects for real customers in PHP at an earlier stage in their careers. And inside of a year you'll have built some fairly solid applications that work, and you'll be looking for work as a "website programmer" because it was so easy to satisfy your customer, who really just wanted to be able to update his real-estate listings without phoning you twice a week.. Ooops, that's a lot of people right now. Jobs for PHP guys are fewer and farther between than for Perl guys. Supply/demand would tend to drive the price for PHP guys down, one would think.
Later of course you'll try to differentiate yourself from the masses, and try to find out what Perl can do for your career and for your applications. Sometimes, and this is not me, you'll find that you NEED to look at some speed enhancement because your stupid website actually became popular. Tweaking PHP, refining your queries, adding hardware, and doing stuff like output caching would probably last you an awful long time before you had to switch languages. > I also wonder if it's cheaper/easier to hire and train PHP programmers that > Perl programmers. > > > -- > Bill Moseley > mailto:moseley@;hank.org
