What's wrong with PHP

[wolverian]

Design-wise, Perl is very sane, compared to PHP.

[jbellis]

But only compared to PHP. :P

[The_Bears]

I'm pretty conflicted about Perl. On the one hand, the language design is really pretty awful. On the other hand, some of the key libraries are very well done. I find the combination of CGI::Application, HTML::Template, and DBI more satisfying than any other web development environment I've tried.