PHP or perl?

[Sparkfist]

Ok I have 2-3 weeks off from school and then really nothing important happening over this summer, might as well learn a new language.

Which of the two, PHP and perl, do you think I should invest my time learning?

And lets make something clear, I hardly know any HTML, so mixing PHP with that is not going to happen.

[gannon]

Depends on what you want out of it. If you have java or c experience, php would be a piece of cake syntax wise, just gotta learn the ins and outs/quirks.
Not a huge fan of perl syntax, but it's better for non-web stuff I think.

[Skyone]

Agreed with gannon, but PERL has some good/easy uses for accessing external web pages and storing external temporary cookies, etc.

Depends as always.

[Electric Rain]

Well, I hear Perl is much harder... personally, I needed to learn PHP for Web design purposes, and I love it. There's nothing it can't do (that I need it to do)! Plus, it's integrated tightly with MySQL if you need databases...

But, Gannon's right; It really depends on what you want to do. PHP isn't very useful offline.

[Electric Rain]

I prefer PHP too... even two years later...

[DK]

[jdmlight]

xkcd comic

EXACTLY my first thought when I saw the title of this thread!

Oh here's the alt-text, since linking to the image itself doesn't include that:

Spoiler:

Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeee.

[Electric Rain]

Define "puzzles" please...