Although the vast majority of my development work is VB.NET/ASP.NET, I do manage to get a fair amount of perl coding in.

I use perl ALOT on our UNIX servers to eliminate the need to telnet sessions (I've pretty much replaced that with socket servers through a web interface), as well as to handle routine maintenance and clean-up and any other task that I don't want to deal with.

Perl serves to make my job as a developer easier. I'm actually going to use it in an ASP.NET web-app, in the near future, to generate a massive amount of SVG from a SQL Server database. Because of the modules available, I'm going to be able to write this in much fewer lines of code and in much less time.

If you make something idiot-proof, eventually someone will make a better idiot.
I am that better idiot.

In reply to Re: Last Script. What now? by peschkaj
in thread Last Script. What now? by Acolyte

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