Comments on: Perl vs PHP

By: Zend

Zend — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:50:36 +0000

PHP is tooooo slow with frameworks, Perl’s Plack has a better performance for developing larger web application.

By: Tu

Tu — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:37:12 +0000

Who uses perl?
http://luv.asn.au/overheads/whirl2/node9.html

Perl Success Story: Amazon’s Production Software Group Builds Auction Site Prototype: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/amazon_0100.html

Amazon Architecture: http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture

By: Edguardo

Edguardo — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:35:00 +0000

I’ve never had an opportunity to use PERL before, I am just getting into the industry and have been using PHP for a few years. What kind of high paying jobs are available with this language?

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:51:27 +0000

I would have to say that I am on the fence with this debate; I think both PERL and PHP have their place. But I do think that Humppila has a point in that as a programmer you really need to have the ability to adapt and continue learning, their will always be a newer more complex language entering the industry.

By: Dhaval

Dhaval — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:09:46 +0000

I have worked on PHP projects for about 4 years and now working on Perl projects in company , also doing freelancing on both languages.

Before getting in touch with Perl, I was a fool believed that PHP is greatest language. In fact Perl is a great language, has lots of more supporting free modules than PHP has and it is much well developed language. In recent project I am using coroutines in Perl that I don’t think possible in PHP.

PHP is specialized for web applications and has essential modules built in core to develop any simple web applications. You can start developing dynamic web page without needing any external module(because db drivers and sessions are built in core). That’s it about PHP.

I don’t hate PHP but I love Perl because its capabilities and high paying jobs. I agree that there are more PHP jobs in market but how many of them are quality jobs ? – very less.

I am not agree to sentence – Perl is dead. In fact it is alive, actively developed and we see it everyday. Web developers knowing only PHP never knows how great Perl is.

By: Humppila

Humppila — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:39:46 +0000

The debate on which programming language gives better career prospects is a waste of time (imo). If you are a good programmer with a good grasp of fundamentals, learning a new language is not a big deal. It’s not like you’d have to choose a language and stick with it the rest of your life. Certain languages fit better to certain purposes, and when there is a need to use a different language, you just learn how to use it. Simple as that. Learning new stuff is always fun. (I’ve worked in SW development for over ten years and have used over ten different languages thus far…)

By: Etienne

Etienne — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:00:32 +0000

kishor : you can use Perl where you want – get a laptop

It is used for near anything that can be done with a high-level programming language. You’ll get an idea by wandering in the modules list on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network : http://search.cpan.org

By: Tudor

Tudor — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:08:40 +0000

Dude…seriously!

By: kishor

kishor — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:03:44 +0000

hi.. this article is quite interesting. i am php programmer and i want to learn perl now. can any one explain where is perl used or what is perl used for?

By: dhaval

dhaval — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:28:04 +0000

I worked in PHP for 3.5 years in 4 different companies and recently moved to Perl in a good company. All I can say is Perl is way ahead of PHP. I am from Ahmedabad, India. Here there are lots of PHP jobs, but 99% are under payed and worst places to work.

PHP is most famous for simple web applications and freelance projects.