It's great product, but to my mind it's adobe's attempt to build products based on actionscript without browser. But they are unsecured for serious applications and сannot be used on serverside. It's not "new school", it's a new way of developing client-side applications, very interesting way.

Perl is very powerful and compact programming language it's useful for both client-side and server-side applications. Now it's нard time, because new Perl 6 is not ready and almost all developers work on it. But i think that all will be GOOD, Perl is a Great Programming Language!!!