all- Interesting topic, to be sure. Although no one touched on the relationship I almost always see between Perl and PHP: Rapid Application Deployment. You can get a massively complex application out to users as a beta much more quickly with PHP (Sorry Perl), additionally capitalizing on the fast ramp-up to make junior developers actually useful. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was why languages like PHP and Python existed in the first place.
>I'm using both at work because we're slowly migrating from PHP to Perl. >PHP is better than Perl in some cases, I've found. If you're >predominantly templating and don't want to futz around with Mason or TT >or whatever, PHP will do a fine job. I'm considering changing my stationery to that quote, it is so right on. >But there are some good >things written in PHP, it's just that there are a WHOLE lot more people >writing PHP than Perl (just look at the mailing lists and script >archives). Isn't that the Bazaar we open-sourcers dreamed of? A million users, who also happened to be developers? Except that the mailing lists are comparatively useless, point taken. mod_perl is viewed by the unitiated as a Cathedral for all practical purposes, even if it is the One True Language. One final point: everyone else besides developers care about one thing: using a working application. They give no flying expletives whatsoever about what language or platform it is in. Those of you not saying "Duh!" right now may want to take a moment or two to mull. Thanks to all who contributed to this topic: what makes this mailing list great is that in addition to gaining insight into mod_perl development, you gain insight into mod_perl developers. grant stevens http://l-eet.com
