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[Robert Fraser]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Just because a large program *has* been written in such a language doesn't 
> mean it's a good idea in general. I could write a large mission-critical 
> program in Perl 

I know of at least one large (non-web) system written in Perl that was 
servicing over 2 million users before being switched. Perl with "use 
strict" and some good coding standards can be just as clean as any other 
language. It's gotten a bad reputation because of its shell scripting 
roots and use by web designers with limited programming experience.

IMHO, Perl is a _lot_ easier to (write, read, maintain) than PHP. When I 
was writing PHP for a resarch project, I found myself literally spending 
hours tracing down bugs caused by typos in variable names, but a simple 
"use strict;" in Perl fixes that completely.