Perl vs. Groovy

We use perl with rex to control our distributed systems.

I use perl on some legacy applications.

I use Perl to rip through log files and compare them to some signature files I have created. When I get a match, it adds the bad guy to the list of shame in MySQL.

The whole backend part (deployment and other scripts, business logic, web interface) is written in Perl.

Весь бэкенд (скрипты деплоя и прочие, бизнес-логика, веб-интерфейс) написан на Perl.

Some legacy code is written in Perl

A very expressive language, lets you say the same thing in many different ways

As long as you don't abuse def and Closure

NPL solutions and statistical machine learning.