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It's no secret that I like Perl. I've worked in PHP and Perl both for several years.
I'm not crazy about the CGI interface, though. It's slow, memory- and process-intensive, and just basically not very sexy.
That's why I recommend you search the mod_perl interface to Apache. Basically, it embeds the Perl interpreter into Apache itself, and gives you amazing hooks into every piece of the Apache response process. S'nifty. AND fast.
PHP running as a shared object is about as cool. But I like some separation between logic and presentation. "Page-embedded" langauges like PHP or (shudder) ASP mean you can't hand your templates to a non-programmer designer to edit in Dreamweaver.
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