title: When should I use Perl CGI instead of PHP (or vice versa)?
body: <p>For hobby purposes, I have a shared space on a hosting server that is providing, as many of them are, both PHP and Perl CGI.  I have read on several places that CGI scripts are obsolete now, I think mainly for performance issues (like <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/313083/is-php-or-vanilla-perl-cgi-faster">Is PHP or vanilla Perl CGI faster?</a>).</p>
  
  <p>But since I just started studying Perl, I wouldn't want to waste time on implementing solutions in PHP that are way easier (or only possible) in Perl.</p>
  
  <p>Also there are the boilerplate issues, I'm aware of CPAN (that is the existence, not yet the content), but not familiar with PHP libraries (although I have no doubt they exist). I'm not prepared to write a login-procedure or basic user administration from scratch for the 10^10th time.</p>
  
  <p>I don't the luxury at this point to waste a lot of time in research for hobby projects either, so I thought, let's ask the experts for a headstart.</p>