Re: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl.

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let me start this comment out right: i'm biased, and i know it. (:

however, i think php has had such incredible use primarily because it takes very little time to get moderate results with php; as others have mentioned, almost every hosting provider has mod_php installed, so they don't have to really think about the backend. often, all a person has to do is find some code online, cut and paste it into their page, and whammo! results. similar to javascript - there's a plethora of it online, and very little to do beside emptying your mouse buffer into a file. heck, i met one particular individual who didn't even realize that php was not, in fact, an extention of server-side includes.

myself, i like perl. when a friend who has a php driven site needs something done, i write it in perl and then integrate it into their site so that it looks 'natural' to their users. and in such instances, the two languages do seem to work nicely with each other.

now, i won't go into the big argument of which is 'better' - as far as i'm concerned, that's a matter of opinion... and probably an argument better left out of this forum.