You Used Perl to Write WHAT?!

Esther Schindler writes "Developers spend a lot of time telling managers, 'Let me use the tool that's appropriate for the job' (cue the '...everything looks like a nail' meme here). But rarely do we enumerate when a language is the right one for a particular job, and when it's a very, very wrong choice. James Turner, writing for CIO.com, identifies five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that... well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? This is the first article in a series that will examine what each language is good at, and for which tasks it's just plain dumb. Another article is coming RSN about JavaScript, and yet another for PHP... with more promised, should these first articles do well."

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I call bullshit

[Foofoobar]

I can get the PHPULSE framework in PHP to scale on a 2 GHZ machine with 1GB of RAM up to approx 80 requests per second. I can get JAVA to do better. RUBY I can't get to do NYWHERE NEAR that!!! It does great in the short run then CAPS OFF!! Ruby has a very limited capability for what it can do and Rails even more limited (so say the developers too). To say that Ruby is more versatile than JAVA is a crock of shit that you are never going to be able to back up until Ruby grows up. And by then JAVA will have done alot of growing up as well.