Can "web services" be written in perl? Should I continue learning perl? I goto all of these job websites and I finally got decent at the Perl language but all of the web development jobs want asp and .net.

"Web services" is just a buzzword for systems exchanging XML over HTTP (or some other network protocol). Perl is great for processing XML or for network programming so, yes, it's great for web services.

Check out SOAP::Lite or O'Reilly's forthcoming book Programming Web Services with Perl.

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In reply to Re: C Perl and every employer wants .net and asp by davorg
in thread OT: C Perl and every employer wants .net and asp by Angel

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