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Originally Posted by pornguy
Pretty sure PHP is and thats the reason most use it over perl. Perl is pretty powerful but never made it far for web.
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Perl is still going strong..no PHP became popular because any idiot could use it to put together web scripts and the ability to mix html and code.... PHP was originally based on Perl.
There's lots of ways to use most Perl as plain old cgi or with mod_perl to get the performance you need.