[Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

[Hermida, Leandro]

Hi everyone,

Do not want to start any kind of language war or anything - just need
some concrete, objective opinions and advice.  We are starting a brand
new web application + services + database project and my boss ("those
who make the decisions") asked me as project lead why I am chosing the
Perl/Catalyst/DBIx::Class/CPAN stack instead of Java/J2EE/Some Java
framework or .NET/C#/Microsoft.  In the case of this project since we
are starting from scratch there is no initially evident reason (like in
the previous example where there was already existing code that would
influence the decision).  From my experience with Java and C# we could
do it using those languages.

Any insight or advice as to why would one prefer a Perl stack over a
Java or .NET one?  It seems that a lot of people (including my boss)
think that Perl cannot compete when one is trying to do "enterprise"
applications.  In some ways (please tell me if I am wrong) it might be
true because Perl exhibits very few rules and standards and very little
built-in control over how you write your code when compared to the Java
and C# paradigm, syntax and compilation rules.  This seems to make it
much more difficult when writing very modular, reusable OO code in a
distributed team of developers.

In general are there people out there using Perl for some things and
then finding the need to step to a more controlled and standardized
language like Java, C#, others??

Thanks,

Leandro



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon [mailto:jon+catalyst at youramigo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 14:08
> To: catalyst at lists.rawmode.org
> Subject: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst
> 
> Following the discussion late last year about Perl not being 
> selected as the language of choice by those who make the 
> decisions, I thought I should write up my experience (as the 
> CTO who gets to make the
> decisions) as to why we chose Perl, Catalyst, DBIx::Class for 
> our system platform.
> 
> I've finally done that - here it is for anyone who has an interest:
> 
> "Perl + DBIx::Class + Catalyst - Our Technology Choice"
> 
> http://software-reviews.summer-snowstorm.com/content/view/17/27/
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jon