> >With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems. > History shows different. Perl was never designe

> >With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems. > History shows different. Perl was never designed for this. I beg to differ - after all, what was Perl 5 about? Adding objects and modules were features only needed for large programs. Just looking at CPAN shows numerous modules of significant size and complexity.