Originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987, Perl has evolved into an extremely fast, versatile, object-oriented language suitable for both back-end scripting and web application development. Currently at version 5.10, Perl consistently benchmarks at the top of the heap compared to other interpreted and scripting languages commonly used for web development.
At Sensical, we utilize Perl as our primary development language for web applications. Combined with the Catalyst Web Framework, Perl provides an easily maintained, rapid development platform for your next solution. Because these tools allow for true Rapid Application Development, you can watch your solution come together in a short amount of time, and see immediate changes reflected by your feedback.
With this technology, you have the ability to deploy anywhere, on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, or even Windows servers, without paying a performance penalty. On identical projects, these solutions generally outperform Ruby on Rails, PHP, and ASP.NET in pages per minute and scalability.