[ale] PHP vs. Perl

Tommie M. Jones tj at atlantageek.com
Thu Jan 10 14:17:12 EST 2002


I think the real question is if you like the approach of embedding
programming code inside HTML. PHP, JSP and ASP follow this approach.

I've never liked this approach myself.

Many Web developers think there are only two approaches:
   embedding HTML in the source code
      or
   embedding source code into Web pages

There is a third approach.  Using powerful Templating functions where you
have simple control structures to support if & loop structures but are not
powerful enough to do any business logic code.

To do this in perl you can use  HTML::Template.


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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Mike Millson wrote:

> Is PHP better than perl in any way, or just another alternative scripting
> language? Can anyone out there using PHP convince me to stop using Perl and
> use PHP? If it's just another scripting language, then I'll stick w/ Perl;
> however, if it has some benefits such as scalability as do Java servlets,
> then I'd be interested.
>
> Thank you,
> Mike Millson
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