Why not Perl?
• Pros
– FreeBSD support and performance is great
– huge CPAN library
– we already use it for offline processing
• Cons
– There’s More Than One Way To Do It
– poor sandboxing, easy to screw up server
– wasn’t designed as web scripting language

Say what?

There's More Than One Way To Do It
This is a bad thing?

poor sandboxing, easy to screw up server
And it's not with PHP?

wasn’t designed as web scripting language
True, but Perl has a long history of being used in web applications.