Most of the scripts I see end in an extension like .jsp, .asp, .dll, or
something which says that they aren't perl. Is there a reason more
businesses and online companies don't use perl?
-Dan
I would bet just about every major company uses Perl in one way or another. The financial company for whose loan software I write uses Perl all over the place. Just because you don't see it via their web presence doesn't mean it's not there.
From what I have seen and heard this is certainly true. My current employer (Fortune 500) employs me to hack on an application almost exclusively in Perl which has no web presence (the app, not the company). Though the web stuffs at the company are handled in ASP, and in general are hugely cost ineffective and overdesigned. I think this is somewhat regional in nature, OSS has a much bigger presence on the two coasts (of the US) and much less presence in the heartland, this can also be said about Unix/Linux.
What I would like to see is more embracing of Perl to handle non-web enabled apps (though most apps these days are getting web enabled), or at least where the web portion is not the primary function of the app. C and C++ apps are a huge target where absolute speed is not needed, I won't even mention the nightmare that are legacy systems JCL this and COBOL that... Based on postings on jobs.perl.org, Yahoo and Amazon are two of the big internet guys using Perl, Google does as well, and I know AOL has a significant POE application running behind the scenes.
Though it is always an interesting question of why must Perl become bigger? "Is it for His glory, or yours?" (name that movie)....
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