Re: A question for the newbies

[Mark Galbreath]

truly.  The only thing PHP ever had going for it as far as I can see is templating.  And the Perl Template Toolkit is way cooler than PHP's templating framework.   On the other hand, if you write OO PHP (available since version 5), it could develop into a robust scripting language.  But there are so many scrubs using it as paste who don't even know what a design pattern is, much less follow something as basic as MVC, that PHP will continue to have a poor reputation for a long time.   Mark<-|-<kraM Perl does Reflection >>> Arne Skjaerholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Feb-06 10:11:17 AM >>> I'm not exactly a newbie anymore, but I came to mod_perl by way of Perl scripts for the shell. I'd already written some PHP, but when I learned Perl I saw the error of my ways as it were and realized that PHP really is quite the makeshift language and that developing in Perl was far more comfortable (and better for my sanity =). Also, once I understood what mod_perl was -really- about, I got all the more excited as it opens up a host of possibilities not available in PHP. Arne :wq