[Cronos]

Perl is one of my favorite little tools -- it's surprisingly powerful and even after multiple edits is not as messy as, say, an uncommented C/Java program.

Ruby-on-Rails, on the other hand, while easier to get things ready to run (development time in weeks) is not scalable to enterprise level -- it's like the programming language version of MySQl -- useful to a point.

[Myrddin]

I'm in the final stages of moving 2 million lines of Ada, C, C++ and FORTRAN using a X11/Motif GUI on SPARC Solaris to Red Hat Linux on a virtualized X86 architecture with a web based (Java/Ext-GWT) front end. The initial porting from the old Forte compilers was a chore. Removing the X11/Motif GUI and substituting a data payload over JMS to Weblogic was another key part of the transformation. My customer is a small outfit in Omaha, NE (Air Force/Navy)