Re: Re: Perl Popularity

Although I have no direct experience of this, former coworkers of mine speak of huge Perl/Sybase codebases in the NY trading houses.

I can confirm this. I know of one brokerage house/bank that has a department devoted to perl support within the company, let alone perl development...

I feel that a lot of people, especially newer perl users, equate perl with web development. That's really quite a narrow view - perl is much bigger than just web apps. In particular it is incredibly well suited to all sorts of data migration jobs, data warehousing, etc.

Michael

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Re: Re: Re: Perl Popularity by sth (Priest) on Dec 18, 2003 at 01:39 UTC
I feel that a lot of people, especially newer perl users, equate perl with web development. That's really quite a narrow view - perl is much bigger than just web apps. In particular it is incredibly well suited to all sorts of data migration jobs, data warehousing, etc. I couldn't agree more, I use Perl everyday and I don't do any web development. I use it for application servers, data processing, lots of database work ...etc. sth	[reply]

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by sth (Priest) on Dec 18, 2003 at 01:39 UTC

I couldn't agree more, I use Perl everyday and I don't do any web development. I use it for application servers, data processing, lots of database work ...etc.

sth

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