Perl 5 and DayPerl

• Extremely rapid application development
• Lots of useful Daylight contrib code
• CPAN archive contains many useful modules
• GIFGraph.pm - graphing
• BitVector.pm - bitstring manipulation, very useful with fingerprints
• StatisticsDescriptive.pm - simple statistics
• GDBM_File.pm - simple databases
• DBI.pm - relational database interface (Oracle, Sybase, etc.)