in reply to Re: Embeding Perl in HTML the PHP way
in thread Embeding Perl in HTML the PHP way
these days, neither does PHP(!)
I really wish that were true, but it isn't, at least in my limited experience. The worst offenders seem to be some of the big guns like Drupal and Joomla (I've not looked at WordPress in sufficient detail to know)!
Those systems positively encourage template files that are a sea of PHP immersed in an ocean of HTML with the result that you can generally find neither the forest nor the trees.
Having worked with PHP extensively over the last few months I can confirm all the rumours that suggest PHP took only those parts of Perl the author understood (not very much actually), reimplemented badly those bits that weren't understood, provided multiple inconsistent implementations where there were several alternatives, and then added functions for anything anyone ever asked for. The result is not good!