Dear monks,

What would be considered as the present day, state of the art, cutting edge, poster child applications to showcase the Perl language nowadays? In the web arena, most of today's popular applications are written in PHP, from Mediawiki to Joomla, from PHPBB to Wordpress. Meanwhile, the Perl projects that are still around are those that were started years ago. Newer projects seem to be seldom written in Perl, but in other languages like Ruby and Python and Java. Examples include control panels (cPanel vs Plesk, Ensim), accounting/business (SQL Ledger vs Compiere, Tiny ERP), bug-tracking/development assistance (Bugzilla vs GForge, Trac, Redmine) and of course the above-mentioned Perl->PHP web apps.

In reply to Poster child applications? by Anonymous Monk

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