SkunkWorks Australia announced the implementation of Telco Perl in its renowned Whirlwind telephony toolkit at the Aculab communications exchange (ACE) in Hawaii.

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Re: Telco Perl Powers Telephony
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 23, 2004 at 13:17 UTC
    "At the last minute, the customer said he needed the messaging service to communicate with MySQL rather than PostgreSQL," Mr Oborn said. "He simply downloaded the PostgreSQL Perl module, and within two hours had it running and tested."
    That's pretty amazing, setting up communications with MySQL using the PostgreSQL module. What's futher amazing is that they didn't use the PostgreSQL module to set up communications with Postgres. ;-)

    Abigail

Re: Telco Perl Powers Telephony
by ysth (Canon) on Feb 23, 2004 at 10:03 UTC
    "There's no need to train staff in proprietary languages, just grab a Perl user off the street. The savings in time and money are enormous."
    Oh my.
Re: Telco Perl Powers Telephony
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Feb 23, 2004 at 13:06 UTC