Actually alot of effort has been applied recently to making PHP a general purpose scripting language. It now installs a cli out-of-the-box (that doesn't stick HTTP response headers at the top of every output) and the php-gtk stuff is making alot of progress.While it may be faster under some circumstances I would not say it's more powerfull. The number of modules for Perl is definitely much bigger than for PHP. Plus PHP is only supposed to be used from Web, while Perl is a general purpose language. Actually I do not remember when was the last time I did use it for web.
I'd weigh in on Perl being more powerful, having a larger library set, and having much cleaner namespace semantics. But PHP is a much less mature language than Perl, and it is coming into it's own.
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