Sam Ruby presents REST+SOAP. Paul Prescod makes some comments.
Paul also has some worthwhile (and well reasoned) short opinion pieces on his page, like his thoughts on the role of gov’t, financial inequality, and moral equivalence.
He also has a little piece entitled Why I Promote Python, and he elaborates on his complexity complaint in a followup, Is Perl Difficult? Of course we all know the answer to that question. Still, while Perl is complex and in some cases bizarre (and probably not particluarly accessible), for people who program it day in and day out, Perl does translate into actual power and saved programming time. Worth the trade-off? I don’t know.