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Re: Why I choose Perlby adrianh (Chancellor) |
on Dec 23, 2002 at 22:39 UTC ( [id://221988]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I like CPAN - because I like doing interesting programming, and CPAN deals with a lot of the dull bits :-) I once justified doing a project in perl project solely because of the existance of DBI. We had information from N different databases / spreadsheets / weird-text-files at N different sites being integrated onto One Big Oracle Box. The boring bit - getting so we could talk about the data from all these different sources in the same way. DBI + standard DBDs + a couple of custom DBDs - job done. The interesting bit (cleaning and standardising all the data from the various sources) took quite a bit more effort :-) DBI is the best database layer I've come across in any language. Bar none. Nothing else in my experience even comes close.
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