Comparison PHP to Perl

From: Warren Vail (warren_at_vailtech.net)
Date: 01/06/04 

To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:52:30 -0800

I am looking for a comparison of features supported by PHP vs those
supported by Perl.

My gut tells me PHP is more robust, but we are trying to implement something
in a company that has long had a standard allowing Perl as a "sanctioned"
language, but current management does not want to fight for PHP as a new
"sanctioned" language (most managers there have never heard of PHP and the
resident Java zealots have almost established a monopoly). The kind of
thing I am looking for is SESSION support, I know it's supported by PHP, but
not sure about Perl. I don't want to have to grow my own session manager.
One alternative is mainframe COBOL, which clearly will not support what we
want to do.

What would I lose by implementing in Perl (other than my mind)?

thanks in advance,

Warren Vail
warren@vailtech.net

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