in reply to Friends don't let friends use ASP?

One argument: CPAN. Over a gigabyte of (compressed!), freely available, well tested and mostly very stable and well behaved libraries to draw from in a virtually infinite number of situations. You can't beat having your work having been done by others.

Another PHB argument: what do Google, Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, CNET, Amazon, eToys and other big ticket sites use for their backend? No, not ASP. No, not Java either (or derived technologies). They use Perl.

Also, keep the mod_perl success stories and O'Reilly Perl success stories links in your arsenal.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: Friends don't let friends use ASP?
by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) on Aug 23, 2002 at 16:13 UTC

    Macromedia AND Adobe both use mod_perl for their sites- pretty big endorsement, I think. (Links go to Netcraft's server query results. . .)

    Update:
    Oh, and the Wayback machine uses extensively in one of the largest databases on the planet. . .

    Of course, your situation isn't parallel to these sites, but there HAS to be good reasons they made these choices- they could certainly afford any platform they needed.

    -Any sufficiently advanced technology is
    indistinguishable from doubletalk.

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