MUDs in Perl

[Kake L Pugh]

Dear lazyweb,

If you wanted to write a MUD (i.e. the rooms, NPCs, etc) in Perl, what
driver would you use?

The main reason I'm asking about Perl is that I speak it.  If this
would be the ideal opportunity for me to learn another language then
I'd be interested in that too.  I already speak LPC but am not aware
of anything like CPAN for it.  The two main things I'm interested in
are code re-use and automated testing.

Kake