The most widely used spam filter was written in Perl - http://spamassassin.apache.org/ http://spamassassin.apache.org/ Spend a couple of minutes thinking abou

The most widely used spam filter was written in Perl - http://spamassassin.apache.org/ http://spamassassin.apache.org/ Spend a couple of minutes thinking about why on in Java or C++ (the answer is - tons of modules it uses). Now try harder question - why not in Ruby or Python? ^_^ The world is the way it is, because it got that way. ^_^