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I'd have thought that the security record of PHP would give Perl the edge, but perhaps that wasn't evaluated.

• mgbmtl 11y ago
  I don't know.. this presentation is pretty discouraging: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292200_-_the_perl_jam_exploiting_a_20_year-old_vulnerability_-_netanel_rubin https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292... The track record for PHP in recent years has been pretty good.
  • kbenson 11y ago
    That was covered fairly extensively here[1], and there's some problems with that talk. First and foremost, the modules he's referring to are either not core, or deprecated (CGI). It's really more a case of poor programmer behavior and slightly confusing behavior in a once core (and long known to be problematic and avoided) recently (at the time) deprecated core module than a language problem. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813479
    • singingfish 11y ago
      argh too many parentheses in your reply. Short answer, need to develop on perl/sharedhosting fast? [pull this trick](https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/3xb6xz/neat_trick_for_emulating_an_old_crufty_shared/ https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/3xb6xz/neat_trick_for...).