Lots of stuff that's built in Perl, doesn't really advertise itself as such. From my own experience in building products over the last 5 years, MailChannels Tr

Lots of stuff that's built in Perl, doesn't really advertise itself as such. From my own experience in building products over the last 5 years, MailChannels Traffic Control ( http://mailchannels.com/product/ http://mailchannels.com/product/ ) is built in Perl with some C where stuff needs to be speedier and Enquisite's products ( http://www.enquisite.com/products/ http://www.enquisite.com/products/ ) are all heavily Perl based on the back end with Flex RIA front ends. I'm currently working on a new startup that's built in Perl as well. I picked it because I have lots of experience with the language (and as usual, I'm doing something "tricky" where a solid understanding of the language will really help), it deals well with the problem domain I'm working on, and I need both a good web framework (Catalyst), a backend job queuing and processing system (POE) plus a bunch of infrastructure bits that are conveniently already on CPAN. I've also noticed that finding good Perl people to work with has never been much of a problem, but that may just be an artifact of location (Vancouver/Victoria) and previous experience (I know a lot of ex-ActiveStaters). My experience has been that some of the more hyped languages/frameworks have a lot of snakeoil salesmen jumping on their bandwagon, which can make it tricky to discern the talented from the talkers. One of the problems that the Perl community has (I think) is a lot of us don't really hype Perl that much as being the driving force behind some of the cool products we build in the same way that the Rails community, or some of the more "popular" frameworks/language communities do. This can lead to the appearance to outsiders that we're not innovating and that cool stuff isn't made in our favourite language. Rest assured, we are; it is.