[LA.pm] Perl Flagship Applications

[Samy Kamkar]

Some other biggies:

RT, Webmin, Bugzilla, Majordomo, AWStats, SpamAssassin, OpenWebMail, WebGUI

2010/5/4 Aran Deltac <bluefeet at gmail.com>

> So, at the end of LA.pm this month one of our fellow mongers (I forget his
> name, sorry) was talking about how he wished there were more "flagship" Perl
> applications that could illustrate the power of perl to a more general
> audience.  PHP has Drupal, Wordpress, Mediawiki, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
> Java has Hadoop, Cassandra, etc, etc, etc.  These flagship applications
> provide the underlying language an automatic approval to the users of those
> applications.  People who do not code in PHP or Java know of these
> applications and what language they were written in because these
> application proudly state what language(s) they are using.  This means that
> managers, etc, are exposed to these languages as providing high quality and
> highly complex software.
>
> So, what I'm wondering is, what does perl have?
>
> I know of one off the top of my head:  TWiki (http://twiki.org/)
>
> I'm sure there are more.  Melody (the really open source version of Movable
> Type) will fall in this list once its released, I'm hoping.
>
> And, if the person who brought this point up in the first place at LA.pm
> could speak up and maybe talk about what you were thinking that would be
> great.
>
> Aran
>
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