> My what long lines you have :) > > > It may not be commercial grade but, who of us writes commerical applications all the time. > > I do mostly, private corporate backends mostly among other things :) > I use it for the quick tasks and simple scripts also of course. (the > projects never end the same as durability and ability) > > And cPanel (http://cpanel.net) is mostly perl for instance. > I'd say that's pretty commercial seeing as how many webhosts use it. > > An associate of mine worked for/does consulting for a nationwide > communications provider that uses all perl for the website, and backend > employee/customer/support/work order/materials handling/etc etc. > > Apple's website uses perl last I heard (the .adp extension is their > special build of it) > > That's just 4 that I knew off off the top of my head.
http://perl.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.html http://poe.perl.org/?Organizations_Using_POE Those are just a few more... > > Perhaps you meant commercial grade as in you don't have to spend > thousands of dollars on a devleopment suite (hint hint Microsoft) and > hire a team of engineers to keep it running (hint hint PHP), in that > case I'd agree ;p > > One thing my associate says that I agree with that may help with the > language blues is be proud of perl! When you do web apps in perl, use > .pl instead of .cgi. Show some pride man!! If you're host can't add one > line to apache conf to be able to serve .pl files then get a new host. > I say drop the extension completely, no one needs to know what your implementation is, as long as it works. > [shameless plug] go to jupiterhost.net we *love* Perl [/shameless plug] > > I like this thread, lots of opinions + not too many flames = productive > learning > U ignorant piece of.... uh sorry.... > Just my .02 > > Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net > http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
