Which is a better script format?

[cavedude]

Yes, Perl is officially deprecated in EQEmu. It will not be broken, but developers are not required to port new features to it.

Lua I feel for our needs is vastly superior for scripting. It's lighter and quicker, and KLS has already ported cool features to it that Perl does not have - like the ability to send custom packets.

Now, I am not dissing Perl. I use it for virtually all of my external scripting, minus the occasional bash script. It's my goto language for that. But let's be honest here, Perl is a tank.

For MySQL work, my opinion is that you are better off keeping that in the C++ server code. Its quicker, and far more secure. If you are familiar enough with the Perl syntax, picking up C++ at least in this case is a breeze.