My suggestion would be to simply sit down and list out the pro's and con's for each option and see which one best suits what you will ultimately need and which has the most benefits both early on as well as later. My thought would be to keep an eye towards maintainability and ease of use later on down the road. Basically, try to use the right tool for the right job.

That probably does not help much but it might be one thing to consider. You might also consider if you are going to be using different platforms (i.e. *nix and Windows) to do your development and running the website. In which case Perl is a good option (in my opinion since I don't know about Windows support for Ruby or Python).

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