I have heard this over and over about Perl being only used for text processing and it usually comes from someone that has NO real world IT experience. Not only is Perl incredibly useful for system administration, automation of tasks, web stuff, text processing AND a whole lot more but tons of Enterprise class application stuff is written in Perl these days. Veritas Netbackup, Cluster Server and Volume manager and NetIQ have all the binaries packed in Perl. Not to mention AutoSys by CA, HP openview, there are really too many to name. The people that say this nonsense always spend most of their time in a classroom going by what they read in books and have never set foot in a real datacenter with multi-domain systems such as Exxon or Texaco or Shell. If they had they would know that in many big DC's Perl automates many tasks and is invaluable. Matlab?? talk about a niche language - I would laugh in their face if I were you tell them Mac OSX ships with Perl..

cheers, Jeffery

In reply to Re: Stereotypes about perl by JSchmitz
in thread Stereotypes about perl by nherdboi

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