Some selective answers...(not really relevant to your present job, but maybe more helpful in the future)
Michael Greenish wrote: > I looked around on the web for a while, tried > to study the modperl apache site's examples, but just > couldn't derive a good code example; I understood OO, > I knew that perl could do OO and I couldn't find > design patterns to go to the next step. Did you ever happen upon CGI::Application? It's pretty popular for OO/MVC web stuff. > What I like about PHP over perl is the ease of > variable declaration. I feel I have to use strict > with perl, I would like the ability to not have to put > "my" in front of every new variable. Probably 1/4 of > my errors when debugging pages for the first time are > undeclared variables. That might be the first errors that you fix when you're first trying new code, but it would save you from so many other errors down the road. > My biggest complaint for perl for web apps, however, > is the templating. I haven't found a template module > in perl that rivals Smarty templates in PHP. Did you ever try Template Toolkit? I'd say it's probably more popular than HTML::Template, and much less restrictive (although you also have more rope to hang yourself too) and can do everything that you mentioned below. > That's my experience so far with perl vs PHP vs Java > so far. Thanks for sharing. -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
