This is a VERY interesting topic. ++rinceWind.

I use Perl primarily for browser based scripts. Since today most applications connect to internet it's an easyier way to do it, not mentioning it's more cheap to the client, wich means - at least in my country - that you have more chances to get the job.

I'd LOVE to learn how to use Perl to do more than web-based apps, but all the documentation I've found seems to be too confusing. GTK here, Win32::GUI there and I keep wondering what to use, how to use, "Is there a way to program in perl that can run on a machine that doesn't have the interpreter?"

I'm writing a pretty small simple app that is DOS based, because of the reasons I've just told you. I'm starting to take some serious thoughts about learning C++ or Java for the same reasons. And the worst thing is that I feel I'm not the only one. It's incredible how the Java market is expanding here in Brazil. I'm becoming affraid to lose jobs because the only lang I know and like to program is Perl.

I think there is a lack of good and easy to take tutorials and docs about this issue.

Oh, I'd like to defend Matt a little. I don't know him, but I think we must give him some credit for popularizing Perl. If wasn't for him, maybe I'd never looked into a Perl script and fell in love with it like I did. It was because of the scipts I've found there that I was interested in learning Perl. Since then I'm writing huge web apps, so I'm pretty happy that I've once found MSA.

Well, that's it, brothers - almost a short version of my programming life :)

Your tortured-soul-web-script-jockey :)

Er Galvão Abbott
 a.k.a. Lobo, DaWolf
Webdeveloper

In reply to web script jockey crisis by DaWolf
in thread Are we obsessed with CGI? by rinceWind

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