Nothing wrong with perl.. But I now only use it for backing up and maintaining the scripts I have running out there on the web. Some are years old and either too intricate to replace or always on...All new projects now are done with PHP.. far easier and cleaner than using the CGI
There are things Perl is better for but thats mostly offline / command line stuff.. for web applications I find PHP much better than Perl..Shame because perl was a pain to learn
