Posted by Greg N. on 01/12/10 11:30

mbstevens wrote:

> w3c validator,
> bringing together the desperate Human Genome Project codes,
> http://www.stanford.edu/class/gene211/handouts/How_Perl_HGP.html
> ...and consider these
> http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html

These arent't answers to my question "what is it that perl can do so
much better than PHP"?

- the w3c validator - well that's an app that happens to be written in
perl. So what?

- How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project - well, that was 1996, there
was no PHP at that time yet.

- the perl success sories on the oreilly web page - well, oreilly has
been making a ton of money with perl books for about 15 years now, while
their business in PHP books is less than a third of that. No wonder
they put together a web site advocating theitr strongest turnover item.
PHP is, despite its power, so easy to learn, and so well documented
on-line, that there istn't that much business there for a book publisher.

The question remains, what is it that perl can do so much better than PHP?

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