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The Perl Legacy
I wonder if Six Apart will ever move MT off of Perl. With MT3, they started supporting templating in PHP, but that's a mess -- plugins now have to be written for both languages.
I feel like, with that move, Six Apart was admitting in a sense that their Perl days are numbered.
Don't get me wrong, Perl is a fine language. But less and less people are fluent in it these days, and less and less hosts are supporting it. PHP is a big, big reason why WordPress has become so popular -- if you write PHP, you want an app written in it.
I just wouldn't be surprised if one day Six Apart releases a new version of MT, written in PHP.
Perl, PHP, Java, or Ruby?
That's probably a good question. I think it's been about three years since I used Perl to develop any type of Web application. Perl isn't a bad language and occasionally I need to dabble in it at work to modify a Perl/tk application we run on the desktop from time to time. I also have a coworker that can create pure magic with Perl/tk.
However, you're right that Perl applications just don't attract as much interest these days. In fact, when I was looking at various "shopping carts" to use for an application...I dismissed the ones I found written in Perl even though I thought they were better than the PHP applications I came across. Why? I just didn't like starting off with an application that uses a language most Web designers use today. Currently my eyes are on PHP and Java with a slight interest in Ruby.