Java versus Perl (was perl vs php.....)

[Selena Sol]

> The main difference between Java and Perl is what is being produced.
> The "great" Perl things that are being produced are modules. But modules
> aren't interesting for the majority of the enterprise world. Modules
> are just tools to make other tools. The enterprise world wants tools:
> that is applications.
>
> There are no killer Perl *applications*. Just killer modules. Not that
> there is something wrong with that.

I am not sure I agree.  I think that Java is primarily a bunch of modules
not applications.  The big difference to me seems to be the J2EE environment
and all the Java IDE's that make application development easier (for large
organizations) then in Perl.