[Catalyst] catalyst/perl and resources

[Kieren Diment]

On 21/06/06, Tobias Kremer <t at funkreich.de> wrote:
>
> Which raises my all-time favourite question: Why is Perl still going
> strong
> in the US and UK whereas good-old Europe seems to has already abandoned it
> completely? I can only speak for Germany though but I have the feeling
> that the
> people here always have to do a thing the most academic way possible
> (think
> Java). On the other hand, people in the US just want to get a particular
> job
> done - which is what perl was made for. This really frustrates me! I have
> had an eye on the jobs.perl.org site and various other job-sites for a
> couple
> of months now and judging from this I should have emigrated to the US a
> long
> time ago :)



There is a lot of perl around, it's just got a low profile.  For example
births/deaths/marrigages registries on three continents run using "shitloads
of perl" (according to manager of the company) as well as info systems for
many of the worlds leading mueseums.

However, because perl only has the backing of a non-profit body the
marketing is fairly low key, and all those golfers out there have given it a
bit of a bad rep.

Having said that one of the things I really like about catalyst is that it
encourages maintainable, well styled and reasonably easy to understand code.
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