Re: Urgent justification for perl

[prev] [thread] [next] [Date index for 2004/11/19]

On 19 Nov 2004, at 12:35, Martin Moss wrote:

> I've had an urgent request for a few paragraphs on the
> justification for the use of perl. In particularly
> mod_perl.
>
> Someone in the powers that be read an outdated
> description and thinks that using perl is a security
> risk - (I know, its not what you use, but how you use
> it thats the security concern).
>
> Any ideas?

We're a global security company. We scan email for spam and viruses for 
some places you may have heard of, like the UK government and the US 
Federal Reserve. About 50% of everything we do is in perl (including 
mod_perl/AxKit for our quarantine system). We're also BS/ISO-7799 if 
that's the sort of thing your powers that be need to hear.

Does that help?

Matt.


        -- 
        Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/
Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html