in reply to
So Whatcha use perl for anyway?
I'd say we all use perl for fun :-) That beeing said. I use perl pretty much for anything to keep the swiss army knife sharp and useful.
An incomplete list of my current uses for perl:
Fun:
Acme
,
Obfuscated Code
Logfile parsing ( mostly throwaway onliners )
Shell script replacements
Unix tools improvements
Web roboting:
WWW::Mechanize
+
WWW::Mechanize::Shell
Animating images:
Image::Magick
Template
Generating statistics:
Statistics::Descriptive
Show ridiculousness of Java code
print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});
Comment on
Re: So Whatcha use perl for anyway?
Download
Code
In Section
Meditations