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Ruth Holloway at Red Hat's marketing site, OpenSource.com, has a retrospective on three decades of perl covering some history and a few of the top user groups. The powerful and flexible scripting language perl turns 30 at the end of this year. It is a practical extraction and reporting language widely used even today and has a dedicated community. It's ease of use and power made it the go-to tool through the boom of the 90's and 00's when the WWW was growing exponentially. However, its flexible syntax, while often an advantage, also functions as a sort of Rorschach test. One that some programmers fail. Perhaps two of its main strengths are pattern matching and CPAN. The many, mature perl modules available from CPAN make it a first choice for many when needed to draft something quickly or deal with a quick task.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @11:57AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:39PM
In my experience PHP has all the functionality you need baked into it*. Most libraries i've seen just force you to use a pattern that you could be using without the library. Though i still prefer parameterized sql over an abstraction library that builds objects from your db schema. Just keep your db calls in a separate layer and you'll be fine. It turns into a mess when people are doing sql calls from controllers/views/high-level places. Every language has issues like that.
*UI libs are an exception
PS: I don't write php for profit. Just for fun : )
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