Re: OT: Perl or PHP

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

I would recommend not using Perl.  Perl can let you do lots of complex text
manipulation really easily, but it is a nightmare to debug, let alone maintain. 
It does too much magic with a lack of data types and automagic variables.  I
would recommend Python if you want to do CGI scripting.  But as someone else
said, you might want PHP instead of CGI scripting.

-D

On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 04:27:02 helixfish@gmx.net wrote:
 | hi.  sorry for the off-topic post.  i'm embarking on a journey to be a web
 | developer and would like to know if i should use mod.perl or mod.php for cgi?
 | i've searched and read alot of faqs and so far they're all just howtos.  the
 | only conclusion i can come up with is with php u can use it directly with
 | html
 | (plus also call it from html code) whereas with perl the only way u can use
 | it
 | is to call it from your html code.
 | 
 | am i right with that assumption?
 | 
 |