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Originally Posted by u-Bob
imdb = powered by mod_perl.
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Will I rant like you when I get old, Grandpa?
Tons of people use languages because they're familiar, not because they're 'right'. Perl is what you had in the late 90s. It still exists. Should it be used by, oh, say, a bank? Depends on the task. Should it be used to parse XML? Depends on the task; there are many more robust libraries than those written to work with Perl, and if it's for a constant-state application, it should at least be saved in SHM so it can be executed without the disk overhead. Both PHP and Perl can be made to do this.
Will a PHP person browse Google to find a pre-existing solution? Maybe. There's tons of shit that reimplement single functions in PHP with hunderds of kilobytes of code.
Will a Perl person use what they find on CPAN? Fairly likely. It's on CPAN.
Wait, where was I going with this?
Delicious Apple Pie. Something we can all agree upon!