Hi,

We've got a small project coming up at work that will deal with a MySQL
database. It will be a small scale inventory management and
production/purchase order management system. We are trying to decide what
language to write it in. We have ruled out Java, C, C++, anything .NET and
Python. We have Ruby and Perl left on our list(although we may include C
extensions).

Much of the data and transactions can be conceived to be very OO, which is
why I picked Ruby. Another fellow on my team though feels that since Perl is
older then Ruby and has OO ability that it is better to use because there
are more books, documentation, etc....(in English).

The system will need to deal with different types of Queues and Threads
since it will spawn across 2 servers and have multiple users on multiple
workstations. It will also need to eventually interact with UPC Scanners.

Any particular reasons why or why not Ruby or Perl? We have a small list of
pros and cons, but I thought I might get some more insightful answers here.

Thanks,

Zach