THIRD RAIL

I’m sure many of the readers of this blog don’t script in perl anymore. Seems now a days python, ruby, php rule the scripting world.

I was happy to see this presentation by Tim Bunce about how perl is still alive and well.

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Here’s my two cents:

- Every job I’ve had since I graduated college has required perl coding, it’s truly the glue of many large infrastructures.

- CPAN modules like DBI, LWP and template-toolkit make it easy to build powerful back ends and front ends.

- mod_perl provides incredibly powerful hooks into apache.

- Perl OO lets you write code so clear most java developers can understand it.

I’m not trying to say perl is better than x,z and z. I just think it shouldn’t be written off like so many developers do.

This is why I felt it was so important to add perl bindings to Thrift. Perl deserved them and the thrift philosophy is one that is inherently perl-ish.

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