I think you are justified in having faith. Certainly browsing some success stories it looks like you are.

But if you are going to deliver a largish system in Perl, you have to keep a couple of things in mind. First of all start-up times will slow down. Long-running database loading processes won't care, but that is something to know about. The second, and far more important one, is that Perl does virtually nothing to force good habits on you. If you bring good habits in terms of organization, testing, etc to the table then this will not be an issue, but it is a reason at a lot of places to prefer something else for larger projects. Don't get me wrong, Perl offers a lot to help set up test suites etc. But it does virtually no enforcement.

However 20,000 lines sounds quite doable, and a database feed system sounds to me like an excellent fit for Perl.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: How big is yours? by tilly
in thread How big is yours? by Jonathan

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