Scott7477:

Good question. A couple of years ago, I had to create a set of data feed translators between a mainframe and an application on a Windows 2000 box. Since I had only a couple of days to do it in, I whipped it up in Perl. When we attempted to roll it out into production, management delayed the rollout and forced us to rewrite the app in one of the "approved" languages.

Then we were bought out by a larger corporation, and while exploring the corporate website, I found that Perl is on the Proscribed technologies list, along with the reason it's prohibited. I don't remember the exact reason, but the gist of it was that Perl is thought of as a Web application language, and that it's insecure.

The funny thing: It's only prohibited on certain platforms. For the Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX platforms it's OK. (I wish my project was deployed on one of those, instead of W2K.)

--roboticus

In reply to Re: Perl in the Enterprise by roboticus
in thread Perl in the Enterprise by Scott7477

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