Fellow Monks:

I have questions that have been plaguing me for weeks. I am a (fairly new) UNIX administrator and newbie programmer/Perlist. I decided to go with Perl as my first language as opposed to Unix shell scripting due to multiple recommendations.

My questions are as follows:

1. Can Perl perform every programming task I will ever need to perform? i.e. Sys Admin, CGI, etc..

2. What additional programming/scripting languages should I learn in conjuntion with Perl to better enhance my "all-around" programming possibilities? In other words, what additional languages work well with Perl?


I know these questions do not seem to be researched, but I have asked many SI graduate students and fellow administrators and I would rather hear responses from the Perl community as it is a language I show great regard for. I highly respect the opinions from Fellow Monks and appreciate any responses I may receive.

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In reply to Survey my peers by /dev/null

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