I will probably never write any more "code." But in the mean time, I have written tens of thousands of lines of Perl to analyze the millions of lines of "code" I look at that the developers wrote.

Your job title maybe something like "Quality Analysis", but you are still "coding". Whether your code is an application, analyzes other code or performs testing, it's still code.

Professionally, I write production software in C/C++. I use Perl as my "Swiss Army Knife" to help me get my main work done. I use it for many thing, including analyzing data for debugging problems - or to understand a real world system so my software can control it. Also for generating code from various tables, generating documentation and other tasks that come with my job. It's all still coding and, because it help me be more productive, I do get paid for it (indirectly, but management knows we use Perl and is fine with it).

In reply to Re^2: Should I learn perl 5 in 2015 by RonW
in thread Should I learn perl 5 in 2015 by shankonit

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