Re: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it?

I'm not afraid of a soldering iron, but I use one only when I need to. I'm an accountant, not a hardware type, and the hardware interfaces of the Pi are fascinating when other people do them, but I don't have the itch to learn enough electronics or low level software to get involved myself. That said, I have four Pis in my home in active use as various servers and a fifth under (software) development. I have another that is effectively my "notebook" computer. Perl is, to me at least, an essential component of all of these. Backup scripts are Perl, and frequently much of the functionality as well. I think the two are a lovely combination.

Regards,

John Davies

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Re^2: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by stevieb (Canon) on Jun 22, 2019 at 19:26 UTC
Thanks for your feedback davies. A few of my friends use Pis for the same reasons you do. I've got one as my main media centre running Retropie. It's got a 2TB hard drive attached and shared across my networks for all of my video libraries, along with several legacy video game emulators. I have one other one in another room as a media centre client. I then have one dedicated to doing 24x7 continuous integration unit testing on my RPi::WiringPi and the vast majority of children distributions it manages. I've got two for development, an additional one for unit test staging and one running my indoor grow operation (App::RPi::EnvUI). I then have two Raspberry Pi Zero Wifi devices running MotionEyeOS, that backfeed to a central unit as wildlife/security cameras. Update: I use Kodi as my core multi-media platform.	[reply]

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Re^2: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it?
by stevieb (Canon) on Jun 22, 2019 at 19:26 UTC

Thanks for your feedback davies.

A few of my friends use Pis for the same reasons you do. I've got one as my main media centre running Retropie. It's got a 2TB hard drive attached and shared across my networks for all of my video libraries, along with several legacy video game emulators. I have one other one in another room as a media centre client.

I then have one dedicated to doing 24x7 continuous integration unit testing on my RPi::WiringPi and the vast majority of children distributions it manages.

I've got two for development, an additional one for unit test staging and one running my indoor grow operation (App::RPi::EnvUI). I then have two Raspberry Pi Zero Wifi devices running MotionEyeOS, that backfeed to a central unit as wildlife/security cameras.

Update: I use Kodi as my core multi-media platform.

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