Fw: Is Perl still the internet's duct tape?

I have to agree with Phil: give a long, hard look at PHP.  I came to PHP
from a Perl background and am very impressed by PHP's maturity and
usefulness.  I don't think it will replace Perl.  Perl is an all purpose
language whereas PHP is more focused to CGI tasks.  The value of CPAN won't
just evaporate either (e.g., there's nothing like MIME::Lite in PHP to my
knowledge).  However, PHP will substantially slow the ASP movement.  PHP is
well documented, highly portable, free and reputed to be more powerful than
ASP.  The math doesn't work out in MS's favour.

 Kevin Haidl
Act of Mind Communications
Web Assessment, Site Design, Site Production and Site Promotion
kevinh(at)actofmind.com     http://www.actofmind.com     (604) 734-5098

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael L Smith" <Michael.L.Smith(at)alltel.com>
> To: "Phil)(at)alltel.com" <Phil(at)alltel.com>; <hwg-languages(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: March 31, 2000 8:03 AM
> Subject: RE: Is Perl still the internet's duct tape?
>
>
> > Take a look at PHP.. it's stronger Faster and more flexible than ASP and
> has a
> > smaller learning curve. Everyone I've introduced to it, has been estaic
> about
> > it. All but Perl Programmers because they see that PHP will be replacing
> most of
> > Perl's existence on the Web. Oh.. and did I mention it's fun to Program
> in?
> >
> > www.php.net
> >
> >
> > Michael L Smith
> >
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> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From:   Phil.Glaser(at)Dialogic.com (Glaser; Phil)
> > Sent:   Friday, March 31, 2000 9:16 AM
> > To:     hwg-languages(at)mail.hwg.org
> > Subject:        Is Perl still the internet's duct tape?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The direction I'm getting from my management is that my development
effort
> > must use the same tools (be it ASP or PerlEx) as the other development
> team
> > in my company. Since they've already invested some effort in learning
> > ASP/VBScript, they're disinclined to get into PerlEx, even though PerlEx
> is
> > less distabilizing to IIS, provides a clear migration path to Linux, and
> > provides a true object oriented language with inheritance blah blah.
> Anyway,
> > I am meeting with these folks on Monday to do a pro/con argument on both
> > technologies and I may still have a fighting chance to convince them.
> >
> > It seems like the crux of their argument is tha Perl is no longer the
duct
> > tape of the internet and so most people doing web-development don't want
> to
> > learn or use Perl because of the predominance of microsoft (hence an
> > obstacle to hiring and maintenance)
> >
> > Could folks suggest some counter arguments or confirmations of this
> > position? My impression is that Unix (and hence I would assume Perl) is
> > still the predominant web server out there. Where can I get statistics?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > > Phil Glaser
> > > FirstCall WebMaster
> > > Dialogic, an Intel Company
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> > > mailto:phil.glaser(at)dialogic.com
> > > http://support.dialogic.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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