Should I use Perl or PHP or something else for this project?
- by Clinton
I'm about to embark on a project that will need to:
Process XML
Heavy text parsing of non-xml documents
Insertion of data from xml and non-xml documents into a relational DB.
Present processed data to user from db using webpages.
The website will be subject to short periods of very heavy loads to pages (300+ visitors a minute for several minutes), but most of the time will be idle (a dozen or so visitors a minute). The ability to cache or scale to load will be very nice.
I have a very strong background in Java and web services, but I do not want to use Java for this project as I'd like to diversify my skill set. Which language would you recommend and what are some pros and cons that you might recognize from your own experiences?