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

In reply to Re: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by davies
in thread Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by stevieb

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