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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