Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, .asp, .dll, or something which says that they aren't perl. Is there a reason more businesses and online companies don't use perl?
In a job interview last year, I was talking to a company who was in the process of moving their big server application to Java from its current Perl base. They told me they felt like Perl was not ready for professional server environments, but they had had a lot of success with Java. I'm just passing on what the guy said, but I think it's representative of a common mindset.
Perl's a subtle and powerful language. I love that about it, but I think it is pretty easy to do things in less than ideal ways because it gives you so much freedom. That's a strength and a weakness, I think. A little bit of knowledge can be dangerous.
Think about it. How many times do we have to tell people on this list to use strict and warnings, get a module for that, don't slurp big files, etc. If even a percentage of that is happening in enterprise applications because the coders don't know better, perhaps we can see where some of the thinking comes from.
Why is it that all the Java guys I talk to know about JSP, but when I mention mod_perl to people they say "Mod what?" Maybe Perl's public face isn't as strong as some of the alternatives. Maybe Perl lacks a marketing department, being open source, and that hurts it a little. Don't laugh, I'm serious.
Of course, that's all just guess work on my part. I'm no expert.
On the flip side, I believe Amazon.com uses a mostly Perl system, just to name a familiar name. There has to be others, I would think.
James
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