Thanks to Rob Kennedy for
this link.
“Web design is no longer what it used to be. 5 years ago, a web
page was an HTML page with a few GIF files. Now, people expect full
featured web sites, including animations, shopping carts and all
kinds of enhanced features. For a long time now Perl has been the
defacto standard for any server-side processing. Now, however, PHP
is becoming very popular. In this article I will compare them, see
their advantages and disadvantages.”
“Perl is an interpreted language optimized to process text
files. As such, it is perfect for CGI use. Using a Perl script as a
CGI means that when an online form calls the script to be
processed, the web server will load the Perl script, and pipe the
output of the script back to the user, on its web browser. It has a
simple syntax, similar to C. The last version is Perl 5, and
includes many advanced functions which can be found in high level
compiled languages.”
“PHP is a server-side scripting language embedded in HTML pages.
It is processed by the web server when the HTML page is loaded. The
PHP code is included in special HTML tags which are parsed by the
web server. The syntax is different, but PHP also has some very
advanced functions.”