Slashdot: Perl Domination in CGI Programming?

Jason Wells jwells at nexdata.com
Wed Nov 3 09:42:58 CST 1999


Boy Mozart wrote:

> It's hard to follow sometimes, like the comments one
> poster made that Perl isn't a "CGI language"--which it seems perfectly
> suited for--and that it's "weak in areas such as GUI development".  I
> don't understand the reference to GUI here.

The reference was to one of Perl's percieved shortcommings - the ability to
write complex user interfaces.  It's actually pretty easy using the Perl/Tk
extension.  I'm not sure how popular that extension is though.  Tk syntax
resembles Tcl much more than Perl and I would guess it's more popular.

Does Perl/Tk development keep up with new releases of Tk?

> I've seen PHP mentioned in several places in these threads, but I've never
> heard of it before today.  Does anyone here know what PHP is, and has
> anyone had any experience with it?

Sure.  It's designed to be a HTML-embeddable scripting language.  PHP's
intended to be very web-centric, although Perl does everything that PHP can
and much much more.  I used it on one maintenance project and it seemed
relatively easy to learn and use, but I'd probably stick with Perl just cause
that's what I know and like.

-Jason






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