[ale] PHP vs. Perl

[Fulton Green]

There's also a fourth approach, where you can use a generic or custom-built
back-end app written in Perl, Java or some other language that performs
processing of XML-expressed information flows (static or dynamically-
generated), usually in conjunction with XSLT (transformation stylesheets) to
achieve the desired [X]HTML output. It's a bit more complex, but it seems to
be where much of the industry is headed (Vignette StoryServer, for ex.).

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:17:12PM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
> I think the real question is if you like the approach of embedding
> programming code inside HTML. PHP, JSP and ASP follow this approach.
> 
> I've never liked this approach myself.
> 
> Many Web developers think there are only two approaches:
>    embedding HTML in the source code
>       or
>    embedding source code into Web pages
> 
> There is a third approach.  Using powerful Templating functions where you
> have simple control structures to support if & loop structures but are not
> powerful enough to do any business logic code.
> 
> To do this in perl you can use  HTML::Template.

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