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 TemplateToo

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.