in reply to Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge
”How would you choose a language to develop a new web project?”
From my own personal experience of dabbling with programming languages over the last 8 years with: Basic, Visual Basic, C++ , Java, Prolog, Perl, PHP, ASP and Lingo.
The most important aid to learning something of these languages for me was the help and encouragement that I received at the Monastery, the simple fact that brethren were prepared to give their time and pass on their knowledge, that alone puts it head and shoulders above any of the others.