In the Web Techniques 2000 Web Tools Awards, ActivePerl from ActiveState won the Readers' Choice award for Programming Tools.
The judges felt ActivePerl managed to convince Perl developers to begin building sites with Active Server Pages. Readers were most impressed with the product's ability to develop within an ASP environment and still have access to what made Perl popular in the first place: pattern matching and regular expressions, the Perl built-in functions, and a vast library of free or low-cost Perl modules to use in your code.
