After using PHP for a few days, I’ve decided to dump it and go back to Perl. Quite honestly I’m flabbergasted that so many fine open-source packages have been built using PHP.
Yes, you can do nearly anything you need to using PHP. But just because I could write an entire web-server in assembly language doesn’t mean I should. PHP is fine for whipping up simple and quick dynamic web pages, but it’s not something I would choose for doing a major project. On the other hand, Perl is even better for whipping up simple and quick dynamic web pages and it’s something I would choose for doing a major project.
As Randal Schwartz put it, PHP is like "training wheels without the bike."
