Posted by Michael Vilain on 06/22/07 07:11

In article <1182485131.806165.167340@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
albemuth <manunderstress@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 21, 9:53 pm, jdoerr <jdo...@verizon.com> wrote:
> > Hey, that's the question. I know Perl, so should I learn PHP? I've not
> > yet read anything on php.net that tells me.
>
> Why not? Expand your horizons. PHP is great for quick, functional
> website development. But Perl is still good too.

Yep. If you're going to write stuff to run as shell scripts, perl is
great. It also works fine in mod_perl Apache modules. CPAN is quite a
comprehensive library of tools for just about any occasion.

php has it's own focus, primarily web-based. It depends on why you're
interested. I knew perl before I learned php. I chose to learn php to
learn something new, but you could say that about anything.

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