Greetings! I work with an ex-lucent guy who, although he understands how people enjoy VHLLs such as Perl, doesn't believe they have any place in the world of commercial (read: product) software development. He knows that they are useful for an MIS shop environment, but he feels that they are "wrong" for commercial development. His statement is that a mantra at Lucent/Bell was that any package which you were going to sell for a platform should be developed following the mantra "go native." In other words, if the OS was written in C, write your application in C, if the OS was written in C++, write your application in C++, etc... I won't reproduce his argument here, as I'm sure most of you can figure it out (compatibility, speed, next revision, yadda yadda yadda.) So, I want some help! Could the perlmonks community help me out by helping me put together a list of *commercial* packages that have been written in scripting languages? Preferably perl, but any scripting language will help my argument. Thanks!

In reply to Commercial perl software? by eduardo

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