does anyone know of a perl shopping cart that is paypal compat.?

Hello,

You can find Perl shopping carts here http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Shopping_Carts/

Also why do you like Perl shopping carts, not PHP, ASP, Java?

thanks, do you know of any specific one that can use paypal IPN?

If you are programming in perl, paypal provides the ipn script free. So it is not hard to combine any existing cart to the paypal ipn system. It is a pretty basic hack.

Check on the paypal developers forum. They may list some free scripts that already have the paypal code installed. Its pretty widely used, so there should be a load of free options.