Sometimes I amaze even myself. James and I were invited by the Digital Projects Department at Duke University Libraries to give the presentation we gave last month at Open Repositories 2007. There were about 15 people attending from UNC Chapel Hill and Duke. The subject of supporting, interacting, and rewriting legacy applications came up in the context of the GIS Lookup tool at NCSU Libraries. My department head wrote the scripts that create the indexes for the lookup in perl years ago. So, I respond, partly joking:

“If hell has it’s own language, I’m pretty sure it must be perl.”

Barely a chuckle.

Really, perl can be useful, but I’m sure most people familiar with perl would agree that it can be so obscure and difficult to work with that they’ve hated it at one time or another. Still, apparently jokes about either hell or perl are politically incorrect in North Carolina academic library circles. I say to hell with perl.

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