Re: So Whatcha use perl for anyway?

I've been perling since 95. Mostly web stuff and utilities for various purposes.

Uses I remember:

web backend. I've never touched PHP in my life.
windows desktop scripts for all types of file manipulations and anything else I can automate (ex: rename all files to this mask)
image processing where I need to get down to the byte level of files like TIFF and PDF.
simple data migrations
ETL
scrapping
learning regex about 5 years before any of the Window dev drones even heard of it.

I don't try to squeeze perl into any projects but for satisfying requirements in data manipulation it has always been the best choice if it doesn't have to be distributed.

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Re^2: So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by Viki@Stag (Sexton) on Nov 26, 2007 at 11:43 UTC
I have been using Perl since 2 yrs. And I managed to imagine a soln for any requirement at work, with Perl. I have been writing utility scripts that ease my work. So I use it for: > automate tasks > parsing log files > parsing excel, xml files > generating excel files (reports basically) > utility scripts (eg. play mp3 files) The best was, a framework developed using only Perl to automate testing of Video Streaming. I am amazed at the options Perl offers you to give a soln. Truly, "You more than one way to do anything, with Perl"	[reply]

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Re^2: So Whatcha use perl for anyway?
by Viki@Stag (Sexton) on Nov 26, 2007 at 11:43 UTC

I am amazed at the options Perl offers you to give a soln.

Truly, "You more than one way to do anything, with Perl"

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