Interesting topic posted by InfiniteLoop on PerlMonks, back in 2008! This having been a boring week, I was catching up on http://hadoop.apache.org. A brief Google search for Perl interface(s) to Hadoop came up with naught. My questions are: have you used Hadoop ? Do you know of any way to use Perl with Hadoop ? Also includes comments on HBase, Python, Java etc. Here is a useful comment:   I've…