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devil's advocate (Score:1)

by slanning (5049)
Oh, yes, we're on use.perl.org, so we're all going to be defensive and praise Perl, but let me point out that:

* she used to work for Playboy, and it was Perl at both ends.
Try to:
- use Perl with WSDL - it sucks compared with VB or Java
- use Perl to write a GUI - Perl blows
- use Perl for practically anything on Windows - there are generally other tools which are more productive than Perl
That's just a few examples related to the language itself, then there are other business considerations like: will you be
- Re:devil's advocate (Score:1)
  
  by chromatic (983) on 2007.07.19 14:08 (#56370) Homepage Journal
  
  .... but pretty much anything "enterprise" sucks in Perl.
  
  I've seen my fair share of "enterprise" software written in plenty of languages. I'm not sure that the suckiness is Perl's fault. There was certainly more than enough to go around.
  
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