Re: What do you use Perl for and Why?

The one thing no one has mentioned, is what Perl teaches you about running linux systems. There were so many things I was unaware of, until I saw a Perl script "doing it". Then I began to "wake up" to what is going on behind the gui. The biggest use of Perl for me is the learning experience.

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Re: Re: What do you use Perl for and Why? by softworkz (Monk) on Oct 13, 2003 at 15:37 UTC
I have been writing Perl since it was offered as a programming class in college. Since then I work at a University that needed a Perl programmer for various "in house" tasks. Most of my scripts are for system admin stuff, permissions, data crunching, e-mail users, disk usage, CPU usage etc... It's very interesting being strictly on windoze but it's fun!	[reply]