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Weblog:		Perl versus PHP 5
Subject:		its the applications
Date:		2004-08-19 03:49:17
From:		teejay

PHP has a lot of applications, some of them very good and very easy to install and setup. The problem isn't that PHP is easier than Perl -- Perl is as easy to learn as PHP, but rather it has an image of being easier combined with applications that draw in new users. Perl doesn't have any equivilent to SquirrelMail or many other very good PHP sites. Perl has also had so much Mud slung at it about being hard that PHP zealots can make claims about it being much easier and lazy or uninterested people will never see how wrong they are. Python also has this effect.

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