Greetings Monks,

I have been thinking a lot lately about automation. Besides being a programmer, I just finished setting the timer on my sprinklers and put some timers on our holiday lights, and my coffee maker has a timer. I began thinking about how cool it would be if any of these devices were written in Perl. Or perhaps the lights in the house, or the heating and A/C. One hears about the houses of the future which came out in the 50s, with automated appliances, etc. We've only seen small pieces of such technologies, appliances probably controlled by C code, with complex functionality, but no centralized home systems.

Perl is a key language for building applications on the web, and I consider myself lucky to be a part of it, and to be able to create programs to do whatever task is at hand (for myself or friends). Seems unlikely, but what if Perl became the language of choice for home systems?

So, wise and creative monks, what part(s) of your home or office would you hope to be written in Perl, and what would you do with them. This could be a description of features, pseudocode, $lights->on(), whatever. What code would you write for your house?

bassplayer

In reply to Perl of the Future by bassplayer

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