Not to sound like I am complaining, but aren't we kind of wondering of
my original topic? I will say that Perl 5 is the road I need to travel
since it is heavily utilized here at the University.
I do want to say thank you for the links at other reading
recommendations that have been provided up to this point.
Mark
On 12/16/2011 4:44 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Rob,
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:27:22 +0000
Rob Dixon<rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote:
Decades of programming in many languages have convinced me that Perl
excels in every aspect. But I have to agree with Rajeev that Perl 6 has
become a theory and needs evidence of practical application.
In my mind there is no doubt of the benefits in Perl, but what place
does it have? And what are its competitors?
As CGI, Perl falls behind PHP by having to 'print' the entire HTML page.
First of all, there are "code-inside-markup" solutions for Perl:
* http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Mason/
* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-ASP/
* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Embperl/
So you can use it in a similar manner to PHP, if you desire. Moreover, I feel
that that inside-out language approach is not very useful in the more complex
cases of having a common look and feel, and generating more complex and
dynamic HTML. Larry Wall's first language was an inside-out one, BTW, but he
understood why it wasn't such a good idea by the time he started Perl. Someone
on the Joel-on-Software forum, I believe, said they just put all of their PHP
code inside a gigantic<?php ... ?> and avoid its inside-out behaviour.
So what is its place?
Well, Perl is a general-purpose language, so you can use it for many kinds of
task. See:
http://perl-begin.org/uses/
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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