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Re: is perl the best tool for this job ?

by jonadab (Parson)
on Oct 19, 2003 at 21:43 UTC ( [id://300424]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to is perl the best tool for this job ?

Perl _excells_ at looking for patterns in large amounts of data. There's nothing Perl's better at, and no language that's better at it.

The one thing you mention that's moderately hard in Perl is the GUI. However, your description of the problem makes it sound as if the data manipulation is going to be the bulk of the app and the GUI just has to let the user tell the program what data to manipulate and what to do with it, and may be fairly simple. If that is the case, Perl is an excellent choice for this project.


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