Well php has evolved very quickly in last few years. If you search for open source solutions alot of them have been done in PHP.

but there are other options. Things like Ruby on Rails , Python and Plain old CGI (using C++)

ASP.net and JSP are also good options ...but only if you have a big architecture and can afford the Hardware to support it(they make devlopment easy ..if not offer the best possible solution.)

I think (and its strictly an opnion) PERL will die out sooner than PHP ...just cause of its hype...when does that happen ..i think within 5 years.

wat will happen to LAMP ...guess they would have to have a P retronym language...

PHP(*.php,*.php3) is Scripting(application)Language that easy to use and learn.It's open source. User can develop to use it.but it need to compile on server.
ASP(*.asp,*.aspx) is Scripting(application)Language.iT'S DON'T open source.You need to pay license to use.

I will prefer PHP.
There is no valid reason

I have never ever used Perl so I dont have any idea about Perl ...

However I have used PHP and learnt much of this ..
The good thing about PHP is that a hell lot of Free PHP Scripts are available at different website.
Due to the diversity in availability of PHP Scripts, u often end up having exactly the same thing which u had wanted.

However, Perl Scripts are also available at most places but relatively they are much much lesser than the PHP Scripts

Furthermore, as people have said that PHP is a pure Web Language and indeed a very powerful language

So I will prefer PHP


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PHP vs Perl
Perl Vs Php

I know both languages extensively, the former out of sheer love, the later because of customers ( ;-) )

I restrict my view on Web programming, for PHP will never standas a serious contender outside this area.

Lack of orthogonality, lack of high level semantic primitives (curryfication, closures, scopes, contexts,...), faulty designs (for instance the poor hash/array PHP array data type), poor quality PEAR repository, have me definitely convinced that PHP is only good for micky mouse projects.

The fact that some good size projects may have seen the light does not prove otherwise.

After all, computer languages are T�ring.

So the point of chosing a language is not "will I be able to complete the task ?" (obviously you will if you are not trisomic), but "how efficiently will I be able to complete the task?"

Source code for many mid-size PHP projects (PHPBB, PHPMySQLADMIN, ...) is awful. Have a look for yourself, and be amazed.

"Patch over bugs" seems to be the standard "quality procedure" in PHP coding and litteracy.

Obviously at the end, it works... But only because it has to !

My experience in developing higly complex web applications in PHP has been a nightmare.

It has proven to be overkill time consuming compared to what the same thing done right in Perl combined with a profesional grade templating system like CGI::Forge or WWW::Forge (Franck PORCHER - Smart Technologies Tahiti - www.Smartech.Pf).

So my definite answer, without a doubt, is "if you have to choose between PHP and Perl for Web programming"... Choose Perl, you will always win at the end.

I'm convinced that Perl is easier to learn than PHP, far more richer, far more powerful, and not restricted to Web programming.

Franck PORCHER



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My PHP vs Perl Experience
Perl Vs Php

I first used Perl to write an AJAX chatroom back in 2006. Yep, people were doing AJAX even then, they just didn't know it was to be called that :)

Anyway, With anything over 100 simultaneous connections to the server the server loads went through the roof anf file locking started to fail. I therefore rewrote the time critical sections in C which vastly improved things.

After some years I decided to rewrite the chat from the bottom um in PHP. It can easily handle thousands of concurrent connections, file locking doesn't fail and since I started using PHP I have not had to recompile any code into C.

This is just one example. There are many other very trafficed servers I have worked on in PHP that perform vastly better than Perl. I know that Perl has been through a few revisions and is supposed to be much better, but I see no reason to go back when I can achieve anything I need quickly and easily in PHP.

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