Re: So Whatcha use perl for anyway?

[RaptorRex]

I've been perling since 95. Mostly web stuff and utilities for various purposes.

Uses I remember:

• web backend. I've never touched PHP in my life.
• windows desktop scripts for all types of file manipulations and anything else I can automate (ex: rename all files to this mask)
• image processing where I need to get down to the byte level of files like TIFF and PDF.
• simple data migrations
• ETL
• scrapping
• learning regex about 5 years before any of the Window dev drones even heard of it.

I don't try to squeeze perl into any projects but for satisfying requirements in data manipulation it has always been the best choice if it doesn't have to be distributed.

[Viki@Stag]

I have been using Perl since 2 yrs.
And I managed to imagine a soln for any requirement at work, with Perl.
I have been writing utility scripts that ease my work.
So I use it for:
> automate tasks
> parsing log files
> parsing excel, xml files
> generating excel files (reports basically)
> utility scripts (eg. play mp3 files)
The best was, a framework developed using only Perl to automate testing of Video Streaming.

I am amazed at the options Perl offers you to give a soln.

Truly, "You more than one way to do anything, with Perl"