BBC Creates 'Perl on Rails'

Bogtha writes "Long-time users of Perl for their public websites, and having successfully used Ruby on Rails for internal websites, the BBC have fused the two by creating a 'Perl on Rails' that has the advantages of rapid development that Rails brings, while performing well enough to be used for the Beeb's high-traffic public websites. This is already powering one of their websites, and is set to be used in the controversial iPlayer project as well."

Comments

Re:Madness, I say

[Timesprout]

I liked the 'We need Perl' quote from the blog. If you tell me you 'need' a language to implement a website I know I need to find someone else to build it. Sounds like a bunch of Perl coders who cant be bothered to learn another platform trying to keep themselves in jobs.

Re:Don't get your hopes up

[adnonsense]

Why not use the UK-specific MCPL (Mad Cow Public License), the GPL version better suited to the British ecosystem?