In the mid-90's working at a start-up we got into a quiet time, at that point I was getting into doing web pages and had gotten past the joys of writing HTML in Notepad. I wanted more, and started looking at CGI stuff, so I started learning Perl to understand how I could get CGI to work correctly. After awhile I started using it for help in testing, connecting to databases, scrubbing data, system calls and other things. Whenever I have a lot of data to munge I use Perl to do it, but I have since moved off into Python and Ruby for some other tasks but there is still a lot of Perl that I handle day to day.

In reply to Re: What was the bait (project, problem or opportunity) that hooked you on Perl? by gokuraku
in thread What was the bait (project, problem or opportunity) that hooked you on Perl? by generator

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