Hi,

can someone explain me the differences between the above mentioned
script languages and similiar ones as well as briefly the up- and downsides?
What would be preferred for creating a professional website: Perl or PHP3.
I'm also interested in literature for beginners. Can someone recommend one
or more pretty good books?

Thank you.

Phil.

Perl is the only actual scripting language. PHP is a preprocessor for HTML. msql is a very out of date and pretty crap database software imho. If you want a solid web application, I would suggest using Perl with MySQL. This gives you the best CGI language combined with an extremely powerful database.
For docs on MySQL go to mysql.com or devshed.com.
For docs on Perl, go to any of the following for starters:
www.perl.com
cpan.perl.com
www.perlmonth.com

or download Perl and use perldoc.

-- Gordon


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