So here I am in front of my Fundamentals of Unix class giving a presentation on perl. (I had to choose something related to UNIX, and I probably know perl the best so choosing perl was a no-brainer.) I was given 5-7 minutes, so I was only able to give an overview. My main points were, 1) ease of use 2) low development time. I finished my presentation thinking I had inspired each of them to become JAPH. I didn't!

One guy pipes up and asked if I knew what the shortcomings of perl were. I mentioned that obviously a compiled language would run faster than a script, and a few of is other shortcomings, but most of the class seemed to think that there was yet another flaw with perl. scalability .

They all seemed to think that JAVA (insert silence) was God, and superior to all languages. Their main point was that java only spawned one process and could handle hundreds of users and that perl, on the other hand, could not.

I wanted to bring up sockets, and mod_perl but with my limited knowledge on these technologies I just smiled and took their remarks. Even my teacher was flaming me at this point.

So I ask, 1) what should I have told them , and 2) is perl really scalable? and 3) why is perl strictly a love or hate relationship?

-Silent11

In reply to Is perl scalable? by silent11

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