Michael,
You raised some good points. But the Perl people already like
Perl, and the PHP people prefer something simple instead of
powerful - so you are unlikely to get too many converts. :-)
You have a valid issue in reagrd to the aparent easiness of
beginning on the web in Perl. But I see several stumbling blocks.
First, there is *so* much really bad Perl code out there which
re-invents the CGI.pm wheel.. and accidentally leaves some sharp
corners on the rim. Too many newbies see this junk and think that
this is how you have to program in Perl, instead of seeing how clean
it can be using CGI.pm or CGI-Lite or...
Second, there is a general disgust with newbie web programmers
among many of the Perl wizards. Just read comp.lang.perl.misc and
see. The flood of inappropriate newbie questions there has actually
driven some of the most knowledgeable Perlites away, which is an
enormous loss to everyone else. I remember when Larry Wall and
Tom Christiansen still posted there, but now... So getting some of
your issues resolved at the highest levels could be, umm, problematic.
And finally, there is really no reason why someone [maybe even
someone named Michael] can't set up a better-than-PHP system to
show others. Apache with mod_perl and CGI.pm and DBI and DBD::MySQL
all loaded already, with clear examples as in Lincoln Stein's
CGI.pm book. I think Randy Kobes already maintains an Apache with
mod_perl tarball. But remember: people who gravitate to the simplest
languages do *not* want to learn an entire multipurpose programming
language. They want something simple, albeit constraining.
David
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