The truth is, those words were uttered likewise, but theres's more about it. As the inhouse SAP administrator at that time I was asked to program the fallback for the applocation our 'Java Witnesses' had been struggling with for more than a year. It was a changing team, mostly students, and they ended up with a myriad of classes they couldn't handle any more. As they went along, I often asked "why don't you do that in perl?", and as the final deadline drew near they gave in and confessed they couldn't, alas, a bit too late.

I left away the question "Can you do that?" and my answer "I don't know, but I assume yes. I'll try". I did, not in 5 but in 8 days. I omitted this conversation to avoid getting posts saying you fool, you agreed having no clue.

Yes, the application is crappy, but only in what concerns the SAP part - a plain nightmare, but that's SAP. The web stuff is straight forward, plain CGI as well, with a dispatch table resembling CGI::Application (which I just oversaw at that moment) with heavy use of AutoLoader.

After all, this situation was non-standard, but a great raise in esteem for perl and your humble poster. The company is more than OK in its standards, generally. Otherwise, I wouldn't be there any more.

At the end, it showed again that "one perl is often more worth than a sack of java beans", just to quote myself ;-)

greetings,
--shmem

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