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


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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!


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