Hello Monks,

I am in a position were I need/want to talk my boss into using perl on our production intranet. I've been doing some projects on our test servers (side note: which turned into prod servers for lack of wanting to put perl on the prod ones) and really enjoy Perl. This is a list I've put together so far that I'm going to submit to him, in order to get Perl installed to do some future projects. I thought I read a node on this here but a search yielded nothing. Btw, we running on a near entire windows network.

• Microsoft sucks. (He runs unix at home, he'll understand)
• The help I've found at sites like this is better than some that I've paid for, certainly better than microsoft.
• ASP always seems to crash a server where as perl dies much nicer.
• No downtime to install activeperl.
• I already have working code for the planned projects.

Any other reasons will be greatly appreciated.

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