Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 10:47



Mark Pawelek wrote:
> only death threats would get me to code in Perl.
>
I felt that way, then the fact that the I'm responsible for maintaining
a massive site written in Perl showed me that actually the offer of
money could get me to code in perl as well.

Now I've got the hang of it a bit it's actually a lot better than you
would expect. I would certainly choose it over PHP for web dev.

It doesn't behave in ways that are obvious or easy to get used to, but
when you do get the hang of contexts and it's other little quirks it's
powerful and ubiquitous.