Perl is Dead. Long Live Perl.

“JT Smith, president of Plain Black, the creator of WebGUI, and
one of the unsung successes of using Perl in business, recently
sent me this essay. He gave me permission to publish it in its
entirety here.

“(In the interest of full disclosure, the plush WebGUI octopus I
have from YAPC::NA last year is one of the coolest pieces of swag
outside of Hollywood, ever.)

“It seems every day I am questioned about why I write in Perl
versus PHP, Java, C#, Ruby, Python, or [insert your favorite
language here]…”

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