On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:49:03PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz said: > I don't. I suspect PHP runs more hobby sites. I suspect Perl does > more of the e-commerce heavy lifting and pretty-lifting.
Christ. I said I wasn't going to get pulled into this. FWIW, according to the latest SecuritySpace survey (http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200209/apachemods.html) the number of mod_perl and mod_php installations is comparable (I've taken to ignore the percentage changes because, a couple of months ago, Perl was growing by 25% a month whilst PHP was decreasing by 12%)/ This of course doesn't count the number of places running Perl scripts as plain CGIs. As for the Yahoo! thing - I can only tell you so much but, as mentioned in the report, we have *lots* of Perl code and our publishing system is written almost entirely in Perl. Currently we use 3 different templating languages - all proprietary - some dating back almost from the days Yahoo! started. I have had a long discussion with the other engineers and pointed out TT (which I thought would have been a better match since we're slinging Perl objects from the publishing system) and they we suitably impressed and may steal some ideas. >From what I can tell the reason for switching to PHP is (a) politics and (b) all our current code is mixed code and presentation because, as I mentioned, some of it dates back from days of yore. Converting to PHP is a lot easier than converting to, say, TT. I think, anyway. People are a bit cagey about the whole thing. -- an atmosphere of PhD student with a touch of alternative elitist radical
