So it seemed that "Perl doesn't get to compete.".

After some people (myself included) emailed the organizers, here's (part of) the response:

Dear Folks,

thank you all for patiently (or, in some cases, not-so-patiently) educating me about the state of Perl as a web development language.

As a result, my misjudgment is now corrected, Perl teams will be admitted into Plat_Forms, and the website has been updated accordingly: http://www.plat-forms.org/ http://www.plat-forms.org/faq.htm

See, it wasn't a matter of "We don't like Perl", as Lutz explains further in his email, but rather an honest assumption that Perl wasn't good enough nor used in enough places.

I'd also like to say that Lutz seems to be a very nice person and I don't even want to imagine the kind of feedback he must have gotten from part of our community O:-)

Anyway, problem solved and Perl now gets to compete. Yay :-)

In reply to Perl gets to compete after all by cog

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