Startup overhead still matters
We all love Moose, and the subject of this question could have been rephrased better, but why do I get the feeling that not many people write pure CGI or command-line scripts in Perl (that got executed many times) anymore? After all, didn't Perl begin as a tool for sysadmin and only in the mid 1990's got picked up as the darling of CGI/web programming?
There are still many cases where/reasons why Perl scripts need to be run many times (instead of persistently long running).
- It's much m…