Re: [Freecats-Dev] Abour Ruby

[Dan Urist]

Python is a good language, and so is ruby, but if I could just put my 
plug in for perl...

Perl is mature; it's virtually unheard of for a new release to break 
older perl programs; it is also very well supported and has a very large 
  user/developer base.

Perl runs everywhere.

Perl has very decent utf8 support.

Perl has an enormous library of code already written; take a look at 
http://search.cpan.org

Perl is a fantastic language for text processing-- perhaps not 
coincidentally, it's the only computer language I know of designed by a 
linguist :)

For a web-services server in particular, perl's SOAP::Lite module is 
very easy to scale up since it will run under apache.

Just my $.02 ...

Dan
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