I was exploring the other day the intranet of the corporation that I work for and I've found an article named "Kill Perl" on the blog of a guy that managed IT security. His idea was that Perl is an insecure and unmaintainable language and must be banned from any customer facing website or application. And he succeeded in favor of Java.
I did not agree and tried to explain him that he is talking about PERL, things have changed now and Perl programming practices have improved. "system/exec/backtics" calls are rarely used in practice, DBIx::Class makes it easy to avoid SQL injection and Moose provides a great maintainable object system, even better then Java's.
But I didn't have much luck convincing him so I'll also send him this article, PERL is dead. Long live Perl!, to reinforce my words.
I did not agree and tried to explain him that he is talking about PERL, things have changed now and Perl programming practices have improved. "system/exec/backtics" calls are rarely used in practice, DBIx::Class makes it easy to avoid SQL injection and Moose provides a great maintainable object system, even better then Java's.
But I didn't have much luck convincing him so I'll also send him this article, PERL is dead. Long live Perl!, to reinforce my words.
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