[plug] Perl vs PHP

[James Bromberger]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:29:57PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > I am about to building a knowledge-base database
> > system using PostgreSQL (uni project) and want to have
> > web front-end.  Which would be better to use PHP or
> > perl. I have little experience in either so the
> > learning curve will be much the same for either
> > products.
> 
> If you won't need to learn Perl for other things anyway, use PHP. 
> Otherwise, use Perl.

Hmm. Use Object Oriented Perl. Its a bit tricky to start with, 
but its just nice to encapsulate things. Read 'Programming Perl'. 
Or `man perl`, followed by `man perlsyn`, `man perloo`, `man perltoot`.

*chortle*
  James
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