Re: Urgent justification for perl

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Big thanks to everyone for the links and tips.

Sorry for the ambiguous question, but was just passing
on the ambiguity, to see which way you guys took it,
as I was also annoyed at the ridiculousness of the
question...

Kind regards

Marty

 --- Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: 
> 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 Someone in the powers that be read an outdated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.
> 
> 
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