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By Abhishek Ghosh March 12, 2014 4:29 pm Updated on March 12, 2014

Why Perl is Pushed Towards Death in Favor of PHP

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Why Perl is Pushed Towards Death in Favor of PHP? Was it Really a Need with Time or Business Decisions and Models Slowly Made the Change? A quite known middle aged person posted on Google Plus his uttered hatred towards the abnormal high speed growth of PHP and very less significant work on Perl. As all of us know, these two has significance with Web Development. It is really not true that Perl is dead – just few days ago we wrote how to install Webmin on Rackspace Cloud Server. The reason we are not mentioning his name is nothing but – I am unable to find that Post on Google Plus, Big Data with unwanted quotes, funny updates made a post to sink within a period of 24 hours. On that post, there were both support and sayings against. You can start a re-discussion on this topic too – Why Perl is Pushed Towards Death in Favor of PHP. We are providing our own experiences and day to facts.

 

Why Perl is Pushed Towards Death in Favor of PHP : Rightly, PHP Started at Mid-Nineties

 

The possible answer of when came from another person, recalling the emergence of PHP for building e-commerce Websites in Mid Nineties. Those who are fully new; should know about the background and basics on Perl Programming Language (there is no coding stuffs), Perl Programming Language is a free, platform-independent and interpreted programming language or a scripting language. PHP is a Server-Side Programming Language for Dynamic Websites. You can read the basics on PHP here without any coding stuff.

Just for taking a kind of break, High-Level Programming Language is different and one of the commonly known example is LISP. You can read a comment on HPL’s page.

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CGI or Common Gateway Interface is a standard for exchanging data between Web server and third software that handles requests. It is a method for creating dynamic sites. PHP, ASP gradually limited the usage of CGI. An example of CGI snippet is :

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#!/usr/bin/perl
 
=head1 DESCRIPTION
 
printenv ” a CGI program that just prints its environment
 
=cut
print "Content-type: text/plainrnrn";
 
for my $var ( sort keys %ENV ) {
printf "%s = "%s"rn", $var, $ENV{$var};
}

Why Perl is Pushed Towards Death in Favor of PHP

FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. FastCGI is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI). With the advent of the World Wide Web, Perl usage exploded. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) provided a simple mechanism for passing data from a web server to another program, and returning the result of that program interaction as a web page. Perl quickly became the dominant language for CGI programming.
Do you like NGINX web server? Nginx can be deployed to serve dynamic HTTP content on the network using FastCGI, SCGI handlers for scripts, WSGI application servers or Phusion Passenger module, and it can serve as a software load balancer.

How CGI is going towards death? NGINX has a quite good growth in past few years. Indirectly we are blaming Apache2 and serving Static HTML pages for Apache2 Server avoiding PHP’s time taking process to serve dynamic content which are not really dynamic – a blog page is not really fully dynamic in the way PHP does the work.

 

Not Perl is Pushed Towards Death in Favor of PHP, We Are Too Confused in Pressure of the Brands

 

Do not be rigid, we can very rapidly develop web applications in PHP as compile and link is eliminated in PHP scripting language. But Perl has many advantages. Webmin will work if Apache2 does not work. There might be Business Interests which made PHP in a situation which will make peoples like me quite thoughtful, you can hire a $5 PHP developer from various marketplace like website to understand the reason of being thoughtful.

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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