Re: Urgent justification for perl

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Martin Moss wrote on 11/19/04, 7:35 AM:

 > All,
 >
 > 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 Someone in the powers that be read an outdated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?


Martin,
You better have one of those "powers that be" give those crazy folks at 
amazon.com a call and let them know that they are using an insecure 
product for their little shopping site.

Seriously though, amazon.com uses Mason 
(http://www.masonhq.com/?AmazonDotCom) which uses mod_perl which uses 
perl. They probably do more money based transactions per day than any 
other web site (except perhaps ebay - not sure what they use), and they 
trust mod_perl.

Sorry, I know that's probably not a good "reason", but it is a good example.


    --John


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