Edwin Pratomo wrote: > > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Denton River wrote: > > > > > HI list, > > > > > > My company is using mod_perl right now and i like it > > > alot, but now are they wanting us to start develop in > > > PHP i really like to stay mod_perl, so i am askin you > > > for some help, > > > > > > I would really like to have something to say to my > > > boss, > > > like this is why i want to use mod_perl instedd of PHP > > > so my question is "Why should i use mod_perl insted of > > > PHP. > > > > > > Denton > > > > > > ps. we are workin alot with XML. > > > > Well then mod_perl (well, Perl) has much more extensive XML support right > > now compared to PHP. I was talking to Rael Dornfest yesterday, and he's > > moving back to Perl development after developing PHP's most significant > > XML project (meerkat) because of the tools available under perl. > > Significant point. > The availability of perl programmers is decisive, too. > My company started with just two mod_perl programmers, and one php > programmer to built one HTML::Mason, and one php powered site. We > separate the content logic and the interface by writing Perl modules and > use Mason only for interface (html) generation. By that time, we thought > that it was difficult to get perl programmers while it was easier to get > a php one (in Indonesia). But the truth is that it was difficult to get > both whose skills are practical :-) > Then we welcome any non-perl programmers (whose interests in learning > perl), and trained them. It doesn't take long time to transform them > into skillful perl programmers. The result is today we have five more > mod_perl sites, while the php site is still one! > These three new perl programmers doesn't know much about mod_perl > stuffs, they just need to work on the interface (HTML::Mason stuffs) > because they can simply reuse the modules which I and my friend wrote > for the first site. > > My point here is: > Not all perl programmers need to master the complexity of mod_perl. Put > this task upon a small team which work on the back-end system, and let > others who doesn't have good knowledge on mod_perl to concentrate on the > html stuffs. Mason, or EmbPerl, or any embedded perl systems (in html) > are good choices, and their ease is comparable to php. > > Rgds, > Edwin. > > > > > -- > > <Matt/>
