Man, I wasn't expecting so many replies!! Thanks for the info folks and thanks in advance to those who I hope add the answers.

Perl can handle json, talk to DB and image processing? Wow, that's news to me man...I thought Perl is like a better version of shell and awk etc....so, may be perl can do excel stuff too?

Lemme check that on google.

By way folks, this is not what I get to hear outside!! May be you guys should talk more about it outside of Perlmonks....so it's like....Perl is not "advertised" well enough may be? I dunno, just saying....I mean this ain't no mean feat...

Perl and DB? I thought Python was the go to language for that. Sorry but, that's all I hear outside. And you all seem pretty helpful cheerful folks, so there's no problem with the language, and there's no problem with the community. So I don't get why Perl isn't spoken so positively about.

Anyways, gotta try out Perl...thanks again folks.

In reply to Re: Is Perl still used in banking and finance? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Is Perl still used in banking and finance? by Anonymous Monk

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