Why Perl?
Deciding to use Perl is easy, convincing people in corporate circles that it is the way to go is a lot harder
Perl has a lot of advantages meaningful to our project:
- Short development cycle
- Maintainability
- Excellent language features
- Code reuse through the addition of existing modules
- We love Perl!
There were a couple of drawbacks too:
- No multithreading
- Considerable footprint