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Odd that there's no mention of PHP: many developers who used Perl/CGI back in the early days of server side development moved to PHP and PHP was much easier for
by danjac 6y ago
Odd that there's no mention of PHP: many developers who used Perl/CGI back in the early days of server side development moved to PHP and PHP was much easier for beginners, especially if you wanted to incrementally move from a static to dynamic site. Perl was, in its day, as much the king of web development as it was admin scripting.
- luckylion 6y agoIt's not just that it was easier, it also ran everywhere, was fast (with mod_php), did not require chmod'ing files on the server, did work even if you uploaded the file with windows line breaks, had parameter parsing and sessions built in. It was pretty quickly superior to Perl for web-stuff in my opinion.
- jrwr 6y agoI still like it for CRUD apps and below. you really can't beat just being able to take a plain HTML file and throw a few <?php foreach($array as $row){ ?> in the middle of it as a quick and dirty web app it feels much more useful then anything else.
- oaiey 6y agoI moved from ASP to PHP and then soonish 20 years of C#. When I see or code PHP nowadays, I still feel welcome and understand all of it. Kudos to the PHP team for that.
- endemic 6y agoI tried really hard to learn Perl/CGI as a young'un, but it wasn't until I tried PHP that web programming "clicked" for me.