Go to Cool Uses For Perl, Code Catacombs and Craft sections of the site for examples -- if you read through the names and descriptions, you migh get the impression that perl is at least as useful as any other generic language. That impression is correct (or at least quite common) ;-)
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I think that just about any application can be delveloped using Perl.
However, if you take into account the strengths of the language AND the strengths of other languages, you may just find that another such as C,C++,or (forgive me) Java that could do it better.
Don't only look at what Perl's strengths are. Look at what other languages have to offer for a particular solution.
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You wouldn't want to use Perl for speed critical programs. (Realtime 3D renderers, etc. Anything where clock cycles really count.)
I think just about everything else is applicable IMHO. As far GUI, I have only done some basic exploration but it seems relatively straightforward.
-Lee
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Raytracers and first person shoot-em-ups.
Any kind of text processing is best done in C
Tom Melly, wellwhatdoyouexpectonafriday@tomandlu.co.uk
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Well, I've seen everything from games, to mp3 servers, to windowing
systems, to terminals, to whatever. If you want to consider the
strengths of perl, then anything that deals with text processing is
where you want to use perl, which is why you find many CGI and Sys Admin
applications done with perl, but if you've got the effort, then you can
do whatever you want with perl.
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