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If, as you say, your colleagues would need training whether you went for Perl or Java then perhaps it's worth considering something completely different.

Ruby has all of the advantages of a dynamic language and doesn't have the (largely undeserved) bad reputation that Perl has. Perhaps your colleagues would be more interesting in learning something new and exciting like Ruby rather than something old like Perl.

You'd still save the project from being implemented in Java and as a Perl programmer you'd almost certainly feel right at home with Ruby.
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In reply to Re: A Perl vs. Java fight brews by davorg
in thread A Perl vs. Java fight brews by Moron

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