Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 24, 2006 12:11 AM
No matter where and what the performance advantage is, PHP will be the choice for many. Perl has number of advantages over PHP, but it is not easy to learn, even for developers with experience in other languages.
What I see as a good side of Perl is that much more functionality is built in by default. Furthermore, there are many modules written in Perl, that are more portable. That is very important when the application resides on the server owned by someone else, and when developer depends on someone else to install (or refuse to install) the modules.
The battle between execution speed and development speed has been won long ago. The clear winner is development speed.
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Perl is not an option for many
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 24, 2006 12:11 AMWhat I see as a good side of Perl is that much more functionality is built in by default. Furthermore, there are many modules written in Perl, that are more portable. That is very important when the application resides on the server owned by someone else, and when developer depends on someone else to install (or refuse to install) the modules.
The battle between execution speed and development speed has been won long ago. The clear winner is development speed.
I don't expect mod_perl to replace mod_php.
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