>> We use a lot of Perl. >That's interesting! That's the last thing I would expect from a bank actually, wonder how common that is. I've seen a lot of Perl us

>> We use a lot of Perl. >That's interesting! That's the last thing I would expect from a bank actually, wonder how common that is. I've seen a lot of Perl used in banking/finance. It really is the "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" and certainly seemed to have almost completely replaced shell scripting in the last place I worked at. One interesting anecdote about Perl was that a group I worked in originally chose ADA as their language when they were just starting out but eventually gave up and went with Perl just because of it's relative power and simplicity. That company also has a major initiative to replace alot of what was written in Perl (and runs the company to this day) with a system written in Java. That system is still not doing any serious production work and is at least a couple years late. I don't think it has as much to do with the Java language as the "this will be the mother of all systems" approach they tried to take with it in the beginning though.