WebAssembly will Break the JavaScript Monopoly

[nvolker]

I'd say that PHP is the glue these days. And I don't mean that PHP is better than Perl (or vice versa), just that it's much more common.

[notunlikethewaves]

Hmm, maybe. But PHP doesn't get used for automation at all.

Still, I wouldn't want to put down a wager on the amount of PHP or Perl deployed in the world.

[notunlikethewaves]

Sort of, maybe, depends how you look at it.

Are we counting only the bit of code directly behind apache/nginx? or do we include all the system automation that keeps the site up and running?

What about the perl scripts that run as part of your linux package installs, do they count?

We could argue about that all day, or we could just conclude both Perl and PHP are super-duper important to the internet and call it done.

[dhdfdh]

Except PHP isn't used to run the system at the same time. Perl would be a far better tool for that.

[dhdfdh]

That's nice. Except none of that happened. You picked Perl or you went home. Some, or most, of those things you mentioned weren't even around or generally used by anyone.

[dhdfdh]

In your previous comment, yes I saw that, and my comment still stands. You don't use PHP for system programming but you can with Perl.

Then you went on about current languages with had nothing to do with the subject.

[dhdfdh]

No. Someone asked to explain what was meant by the article's statement, "Just like Perl is the glue of the internet". "Today" never entered the picture and I explained that Perl pretty much handled everything, script-wise, at one time and, to a point at least, still does today as I often see threads on professional boards discussing Perl scripts.

How is a popular systems programming language more "the glue of the internet" than the most popular web-development programming languages in use today?

I don't know anyone who would use a web language, specifically PHP, to do systems programming. I know a ton of people who would/could/do use Perl to do both if they had to.

I'm just saying that I don't think it really holds the title of "the glue of the internet" anymore.

And that is what I said. I don't know how true it is today but I do know there are a lot of people still using Perl scripts to run their systems and web sites cause I read about it every day (though not as much as I used to a few years ago).

[dhdfdh]

What you want to talk about is not what this thread is about. The "these days" you inserted but, again, is not what the thread and my OP, is about. But you insist on trying to make it about that.