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Old 21st September 2008
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If you like Perl, Perl is best: if not, PHP5+ is best imho.

I like working in Perl but generally find PHP easier for generating pages. If I had to convert a data set to HTML, I would prefer Perl . But when it comes to just handling webpages, PHP5. Although imho PHP has a lot more (annoying) short-comings then Perl; it can be quite nice to work in and is getting better to work in as time progresses (PHP6). The only really bad thing I can say about PHP, I usually find tri-lingual tangles of it that makes improving my back-swing look like a lot more fun...


However, I do admit, I would really like to try Python and Ruby On Rails someday for my web needs. In some shape or form though, you can really use any language server side but it may as well be a fun one ;-)
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