Re: [LUG] Perl (Was Re: New member)

[Tom Glare <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Rick Timmis wrote:

> We use pearl in our business App Mobius.
>
>
> Paul Weaver wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 3:23 pm, Steve Marvell scribbled:
> >  
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:09:52PM +0000, Pete Hatton wrote:
> > >    
> > >
> > > > > Is this the right medium to ask technical questions, i.e get some help
> > > > >        
> > > > Yes, providing it's Linux related :)
> > > >      
> > > Perl should go to the perl mongers, but it ends up here sometimes,
> > > when systems related.
> > >
> > >    
> >
> > Do people still use perl in new apps? I thought PHP had replaced it :evilgrin:
If you're talking wubblyu-wubblyu-wubblyu (still a mysterious area to me -
the first time I went on line a train almost hit me), then I believe PHP
has at least partially taken over from Perl as the fashionable tool for
ciggy scripting (I think that may be something to do with tar
archives). However, Perl  slightly pre-dates Biggus Bangus Internetus and
is very useful and fast for any data manipulation tasks like report
formatting and data importing/exporting. Replaces tools like sed and awk
and is both simpler and more powerful than shell scripting in a lot of
cases.


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