> You come to understand why every time a useful program is written in Perl or PHP Mate, I agree PHP sucks (aside from the legions of maschochists who do usefu

> You come to understand why every time a useful program is written in Perl or PHP Mate, I agree PHP sucks (aside from the legions of maschochists who do useful stuff with it), but a lot of perl (when used in a disciplined manner in communication with ones peers) is a useful and productive orthogonal take on computer science.