> NOW, don't get me wrong, I'm not even any where knocking
> GT, it's just that alot of young folks are getting on the net wagon,
> with little or no cash, and can slap together a pretty decent site with
> the help of lot's of php fanatics. look at the power and bonding
> between mac users.

This used to be the case of Perl years ago. Remember Matts Script Archive at http://www.worldwidemart.com/ -- that used to be the place for all your free CGI/Perl scripts. Until the guy went off to Uni and everyone realised his scripts were crap and full of security loopholes.

Jeepers. I think he really started off the whole free scripts craze. Or I'm sure he was one of the root people to start coding and throwing away his stuff for free. After that came the CGI Resource Index, which is now more or less dead too. Selena Sol, and so on and so on...

Sigh. Those were the days.

I'm just wondering why has the shift moved from perl to php recently? There's been a dramatic shift from everyone jumping ship from Perl to PHP for their free scripts, and little forms etc. etc. All the big complex programs are still written in Perl, and other languages, even some still in Python. <shudder>.

I'm just wondering what the catalyst for this big jump has been? I miss the good old days of the Perl community. Not saying that it's dying, it's as strong as ever, maybe even stronger, maturer and wiser.. but there was a real sense of perl everything on the net a few years back. Now that seems a little distorted as of late.

- wil