What is the (greatest|biggest|largest|supreme|most known) project made (in|with) perl?

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Update: Other well known projects are imdb.com (tinita++ for the info) and slashdot (or slash, the code base).

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by jettero (Monsignor) on Dec 03, 2007 at 15:34 UTC

-Paul

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by Gangabass (Vicar) on Dec 05, 2007 at 11:48 UTC

Yes, you right. As i know IMDB is a Amazon project.

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by metaperl (Curate) on Dec 05, 2007 at 19:48 UTC

Re: What is the (significant) project made (in|with) perl?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 03, 2007 at 17:25 UTC

You don't have the word 'significant' in your alternation, but if it were there, then I would have to rate How Perl saved the Human Genome Project as likely to prove one of the most significant in the long term.

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I don't know about biggestbestest and frankly don't care, but here are some large and well-known open source Perl projects:

Go to freshmeat and find thousands more.

All dogma is stupid.

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Sweden's pension system?

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Bugzilla: http://www.bugzilla.org/

update

update 2 - a question of my own

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a much earlier node

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I saw today an interesting perlbuzz pointer about the BBC.

You can see that perlbuzz itself is powered by the publishing platform "movable type"

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CPAN

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I would put forth easy gui programming with Perl/Tk (or Perl/Gtk2). Tk is a project , which lets you make other projects. Although you may not find them by googling, you will find it in widespread use; .... so much so, that ActiveState includes it in it's Perl for Windows.

mod_perl has made many projects possible too.

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POPFile

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The actual programs making the data are mostly Fortran, but the framework that interacts with the database (DBI/DBD) and figures out what to run, and runs it is all Perl.

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Someone already mentioned my first choice of RT, but I think Catalyst also deserves a mention.

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by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2007 at 23:27 UTC

ensembl.org and BioPerl are huge, significant, and made with perl. Ensembl publishes annotated genomes, and its workflow was perl/DBI/mysql last I heard from them.

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