| The Dark Ages
When it comes to web programming, Perl developers are spoiled. They have an incredible array of choices for extending web-based content delivery, whether plain old CGI scripts, FastCGI and SpeedyCGI, or mod_perl and PerlIS. Beyond that, they have a large selection of frameworks with which to build their dynamic content, from Maypole and Catalyst to AxKit and OpenInteract.
The same is not true of email. Those who administer an email server more than likely have put up with the pain of adding dnsbl lookups to something like Sendmail or Qmail, or adding recipient validation for their custom user database in Postfix. Extending email servers is painful, and for the most part you can't do it easily in Perl.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could do something like mod_perl in a mail server? |
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