Does anybody else get as furious as I do when people have the attitude of perl being only "a basic scripting language" or "for CGI only" ? Perl is used for much more than just CGI, not the least of which is mod_perl, a faster more powerful implementation than ASP. | [reply] |
It definitely irks me. In fact, in reaction to everything I write in Perl being called a "Perl script" regardless of its complexity, I have backlashed in the other direction. Around work, I always intentionally refer to code written in Perl as a "Perl program", even if it's a one-line throwaway script. The truth is that most Perl code I write is somewhere in between the two extremes of throwaway scripts and large applications, but a lot of people just don't understand that Perl is not merely for quickie one-off scripts.
-- Mike
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Yes, that irks me as well! I probably one of the few
people that didn't learn Perl from Web/CGI programming.
I use it for everything but web programming, just because
I don't do much(any) web design. I use Perl for client-
server programs, text processing, atomated processes, and
TONS of database work. I usally get to fustrated to reply
as well as people have here(Bravo to the monks who offered
some great definitions!), so I usally state,
"You can do anything with Perl!" :-)
STH
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