What you've described is a people problem, not a technical one. For whatever set of reasons, the organization has descended into being a "blaming" culture. The technical aspects are just symptoms. Exchange Perl for Java, and it'd be "same song, second verse".

Yes. The wit of the root node of this thread comes from the fact that it is clear that it isnt an anti-perl thread when you read it and step back for a moment to see what I was saying. We have a hard time understanding why people dont like perl (because its so damn cool). However, I am in a unique position to shed light on at least one situation. Imagine in the future, this particular admin moves on, and to a new company. Imagine they do their development in perl. For some reason he resents upgrading and adding modules. He resents giving them shells. Imagine a monk works at that site, comes here and complains about how unfair that is.

This is why. This thread. I called it like it is, and a lot of people missed the idea.

--
Laziness, Impatience, Hubris, and Generosity.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.