[Catalyst] Last Chance / Last Day: Web development platform contestand Perl / Catalyst

[Sebastian Riedel]

apv wrote:
> The last two big companies I worked for were both moving away from 
> Perl. One of them was Amazon.com (I known there are still a few 
> boosters and projects for Perl there but as a whole the company has 
> become quite anti-Perl and has been rewriting everything in Java it 
> can get budget money for). It isn't because Perl isn't useful, Perl 
> helped build both of the companies, but because it has an image of not 
> being up to the task. Sure Perl's not dead but that's at least 100 
> high paying, high profile Perl jobs in my town alone that are gone. 
> Not because Perl sucks but because a lot of people think it does.

Funny you mention Amazon switching to Java.
I would expect more Ruby projects from them since the Jeff Bezos / 
37signals deal.

    
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php


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sebastian