Use Python. It has powerful functions and fast development speed. The built-in socket library can complete most of the needs. Of course, if there is a tradition of using Perl in the team, it is better to continue Perl, so the maintenance cost will be much lower.
If you want concurrency, consider http://search.cpan.org/dist/AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent/Socket.pm If you don’t want concurrency, consider http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/IO-1.25/lib/ IO/Socket/INET.pm is enough You can search a lot of tcp client examples on google
Use Python. It has powerful functions and fast development speed. The built-in socket library can complete most of the needs.
Of course, if there is a tradition of using Perl in the team, it is better to continue Perl, so the maintenance cost will be much lower.
If you want concurrency, consider http://search.cpan.org/dist/AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent/Socket.pm
If you don’t want concurrency, consider http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/IO-1.25/lib/ IO/Socket/INET.pm is enough
You can search a lot of tcp client examples on google
http://xmodulo.com/how-to-write-simple-tcp-server-and-client-in-perl.html