What happened to Perl?
- by llasa
I will try to keep this as objective as possible.
I've been dealing with PHP since 3 years know, I have always known of Perl but never really "dived" into it.
So I took a look at some Perl code examples and I thought: Wow, It's like PHP just failed at cloning it.
My questions are:
What is bad about Perl? What are the disadvantages that made it so extremely unpopular so that it is actually dying right know? Why could PHP take over?
What does PHP have (or what did it have in the times of PHP4) that made it rise in popularity compared to Perl?
I'm rather young and the questions above are a bit subjective and I think you can only really answer them when you have experienced the rise of PHP along with the fall of Perl.
Unless my question before I hope that this one here can be more or less completely answered.
There have to be definite disadvantages Perl has compared to PHP that made it fall.