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Re:The joy of Perl by einhverfr on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:47AM (#3729162)
Perl is still an excellent glue language.

The way we are moving towards things in LedgerSMB is:

Web and file format (csv, latex, etc) templates in TemplateToolkit

Everything that can be done as set operations in the db in the process of storing/retrieving info is done in PL/PGSQL.

A brief framework written in Perl

And the rest of the Perl code essentially is written to be very light-weight automation glue between these layers.

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