I work in a primarly C# and VB shop. Another group needed a tool to alter log files, using a server name buried inside a line to query a DB for the user responsible for that server, and append that to the line.
The devel team lead rejected the project on the basis that the 16 man-hours required to create and test the app in C# were not cost justifiable. I suggested I be allowed to spend an hour seeing if it could be done more cheaply, and it was approved. I spent 15 minutes writing a script using DBI and DBD::ADO and a regex. It took me 5 minutes to test completely. I then played FFT-A for the remaining 40 minutes. ;-)
Anima Legato
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