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in reply to Re: Defending Perl
in thread Defending Perl
Sadly it's not public. Here is how it works:
The govt. signed a huge training contract with IBM and has been giving 'free' very thorough (9 month long) certificate courses. The courses start with basic Linux training and end with Web Application Development. They are supposed to be courses to change the mindset of programmers from proprietary development to free and open source development. Well, the Linux courses are taught with SuSe (and/or RedHat) and the programming tracks are all Java. In the Web Development tracks they use a Perl CGI script to demonstrate how *NOT* to program for the web and then they go on to show MVC with Struts and alike
So even though they don't get directly into a Perl vs. Java discussion, they leave Perl as if it were just an old school scripting language for simple CGI scripts.
What I would like to gather, for example, is a list of very large deployments with Perl along with reasons as to why it was chosen, especially if it was chosen over Java or .NET. At one time we had a reference that Amazon was built with Mason, but I could never verify this information. It seems that companies that use Perl for critical applications are shy|ashamed to say it.
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Re^3: Defending Perl
by mirod (Canon) on Nov 16, 2007 at 14:43 UTC
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TicketMaster uses extensively Perl. Specifically mod_perl. They probably have one of the highest peak traffic on the web (think "tickets for the Rolling Stones tour go on sale at 8:00 am today"), and they use Perl because it can handle the load. That should put to rest concerns about whether Perl can be used to build huge, high-performance systems.
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Re^3: Defending Perl
by hsinclai (Deacon) on Nov 16, 2007 at 20:47 UTC
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If this page here is still accurate, the global Amazon architecture has a Perl/Mason layer in there.
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