[tootie]

I wrote mostly Perl for nearly ten years of my career and I miss it. It was so easy to transition between writing big codebases and doing little command line stuff. The super power was how easy it was to write little command line stuff that could quickly include all the enterprise libraries.

[jacobyoder]

I feel the same about PHP. It's easy to scale up, and can scale down to small CLI scripts (but can include any utility libraries you need as well).

[mst]

I really can't stand PHP but as a veteran perl hacker I really do need to say "that's my personal opinion and I am -amazingly- impressed with what people have -done- with PHP even if I don't like it myself."