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Re: [LUG] Speaking of Perl

 

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 20:31 +0100, Martijn Grooten wrote:
>
> So do people still use Perl professionally? Privately? Are new people
> (say at uni) still learning Perl?
> 
I use perl at work as a sysadmin tool. It is easy (for me now) to
quickly put together a short program to (for example) analyse large
amounts of output. It is possible to string together commands such a
grep, awk, sed etc, but that can at times get a bit convoluted. Using a
perl script makes it a bit easier.

I have used python, but not ruby, but found no real reason to persist
with it as I had used perl for a few years prior to looking at python. I
saw no reason to change from perl :-)

No idea whether perl is taught here.




John.

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