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Linked by Adam S on Wed 13th Jul 2005 12:53 UTC

The Question: With the emergence of .NET, J2EE, Python, PHP, et. al, has Perl lost its niche as a scripting glue language? The Answer: Tim O'Reilly gives his two cents.

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Depends on what you are doing

by on Wed 13th Jul 2005 15:18 UTC

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For me its very simple:
- simple things: bash
- a bit more complex to very modular: perl
- web: php

I read a lot about ruby on rails, but everytime I start a project I ask myself why I should use other things, when I have a huge knowledge of PHP plus tons of libs, classes, etc.

Same with perl. I always try to find a reason to try out python, but whenever I need perl, I don't have the time to learn something like python.

So what does python give me that perl does not? Same with ruby. What does Ruby give me what I don't have with PHP?

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