Thank you for the detailed response.

It will primarily be automating health checks, writing data to Excel sheets to generate reports and graphs, emailing this information to various teams, all of this through scripts. I tried Python but didn't like it much. I'm far more comfortable with the braces than spaces.

Also one of the senior guys who just left told me to learn Perl because in the automation world, Perl skill is considered to be a higher level skill than Python and there is a good demand for Perl atleast in the automation and devops world.

He also mentioned that this forum is one of the reasons why he could learn Perl very well and thinks quite highly of perlmonks.

Infact I've registered for a username here but looks like the request is still being considered, hence I'm writing here anonymously. Once my request gets approved I will use it to post questions here.

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