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PHPeverywhere: Comparing PHP with Perl for Dynamic Web Pages
Jan 5, 2001, 18 :02 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (1345 reads) (Other stories by John Lim)

"It's impossible to remain totally impartial about wine. It's even worse when we talk about programming languages, particular ones as popular as Perl and PHP. You just cannot be impartial, so I have to admit that I like PHP better."

"Perl is one of the most useful programming languages ever created. The email system I use at work is glued together by Perl scripts. The regular expression support in Perl is the best in the world. I have used Matt Wright's FormMail (who hasn't?) However for generating web pages Perl has a lot of deficiencies compared to PHP. ..."

"... If you are a Perl expert, Perl probably is the best software for generating dynamic HTML because you can leverage all your experience and do work quickly."

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  Perl ne PHP
You cannont compare Perl with PHP. Perl is a programming language. PHP is some syntax that you can embed into html. The following is a more reasonable comparison.

HTML::Embperl with PHP
HTML::Mason with PHP
Text::Template with PHP

since those are Perl modules that do what PHP does.

BTW I like and use PHP a lot, but just get frustrated when they compare it to Perl. It's not comparable   
  Jan 9, 2001, 22:29:24
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