So, how has Perl saved you time at your job recently?

This is a question that pops up over and over again. There are usually lots of people giving answers, but almost always the answer means "programming saved me some time". It just happens that in a Perl forum, most people use Perl as their main tool. But over at forum X-monks, people solve almost identical problem using language X.

Over the years, I got paid to solve computer related problems. Perl has been my favourite tool. And sure, the tools I wrote in Perl saved time over doing it by hand - but I got paid to do it in a faster way than doing it by hand. And if I hadn't learn Perl, I might have learned Python or Ruby or REXX or be better at using the sh/awk/C trident, and would have solved to problems by using whatever language(s) I had learned instead.

In reply to Re: How has Perl saved you time at your job this week|month|year|decade? by JavaFan
in thread How has Perl saved you time at your job this week|month|year|decade? by missingthepoint

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