I'm not exactly a newbie anymore, but I came to mod_perl by way of Perl scripts for the shell. I'd already written some PHP, but when I learned Perl I saw the error of my ways as it were and realized that PHP really is quite the makeshift language and that developing in Perl was far more comfortable (and better for my sanity =).
Also, once I understood what mod_perl was -really- about, I got all the more excited as it opens up a host of possibilities not available in PHP. Arne :wq
