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Popular Perl Complaints and Myths






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Table of Contents

Description

This document tries to explain the myths about Perl and overturn the FUD certain bodies try to spread.



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Abbreviations



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Interpreted vs. Compiled



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Interpreted vs. Compiled (More Gory Details)



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Perl is overly memory intensive making it unscalable



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More Tuning Advice:



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Not enough support, or tools to develop with Perl. (Myth)



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If Perl scales so well, how come no large sites use it? (myth)



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Perl even with mod_perl, is always slower then C.



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Java does away with the need for Perl.



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Perl can't create advanced client side applications



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ASP makes Perl obsolete as a web programming language.



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Credits

Thanks to the mod_perl list for all of the good information and criticism. I'd especially like to thank,



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Maintainers

Maintainer is the person(s) you should contact with updates, corrections and patches.



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Authors

Only the major authors are listed above. For contributors see the Changes file.






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