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Let's see: - Bigger community, thus more resource documentation out there (Perl has Perl Monks going for it). - More MVC frameworks (CakePHP, CI, Symfony, Lit

Let's see: - Bigger community, thus more resource documentation out there (Perl has Perl Monks going for it). - More MVC frameworks (CakePHP, CI, Symfony, Lithium) vs. Catalyst. - PHP has a cleaner syntax I'm biased to PHP so of course I think it's better. For someone getting started with web development, I would recommend PHP over Perl. That is not to say that one should never "explore" Perl. Hell, Lawrence Livermore Labs uses a lot of it. As Perl was developed originally as a scripting language for unix, it is fast, but I don't think it's well suited for the web (my opinion). Plus, like the troll below me said (who apparently wrote a book on Catalyst, hence his bias), PHP was highly influenced from Perl, so if anything PHP is an alternative to Perl, not the other way around (like the OP mentioned).

gizzlon 15y ago
well, I write both PHP and Perl, and prefer Perl for most things. Both have pros & cons, of course. More frameworks for you: - http://mojolicio.us/ - http://perldancer.org/ - http://jifty.org (has a pony :) The Perl culture is often very geeky and actually pretty cool. But it's also "spread out", there's no one-place for everything perl. - http://blogs.perl.org/ - http://perlbuzz.com/ - http://perlmonks.org/ - http://www.perl.org/community.html ++ SO and github, of course..
jrockway 15y ago
I don't suggest Perl because I wrote a book on Catalyst. I wrote a book on Catalyst because I suggest Perl. Anyway, here's what Perl has going for it: * a larger group of core contributers * an order of magnitude more modules (and module authors) * Moose * excellent Emacs support * higher average level of proficiency among core team, and module authors Ultimately, CPAN is the reason for using Perl. But after doing a lot of work in Python, I do really appreciate the things that Perl has built-in, too, like all-encompassing regexes.

gizzlon 15y ago

well, I write both PHP and Perl, and prefer Perl for most things. Both have pros & cons, of course. More frameworks for you: - http://mojolicio.us/ - http://perldancer.org/ - http://jifty.org (has a pony :) The Perl culture is often very geeky and actually pretty cool. But it's also "spread out", there's no one-place for everything perl. - http://blogs.perl.org/ - http://perlbuzz.com/ - http://perlmonks.org/ - http://www.perl.org/community.html ++ SO and github, of course..

jrockway 15y ago

I don't suggest Perl because I wrote a book on Catalyst. I wrote a book on Catalyst because I suggest Perl. Anyway, here's what Perl has going for it: * a larger group of core contributers * an order of magnitude more modules (and module authors) * Moose * excellent Emacs support * higher average level of proficiency among core team, and module authors Ultimately, CPAN is the reason for using Perl. But after doing a lot of work in Python, I do really appreciate the things that Perl has built-in, too, like all-encompassing regexes.