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Re: Perl Programmer -> J2EE Convert?:
If people question you about the scalability of Perl, you might mention to them some of the companies that make extensive use of Perl: Amazon, Yahoo, Overture, TicketMaster, CitySearch, IMDB...
Are these companies the dinosaurs of the web? Are PHP-based web apps eating their lunch? See also
Re^2: Perl/CGI Vs PHP Vs ASP.
There are reasons that businesses moved away from Cobol. Those are not the same reasons that businesses are glomming onto the buzzword development environments. And the businesses that are focused on getting the job done are not moving away from Perl.
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