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Re: Industry Specific Uses of Perl

by almut (Canon)
on Oct 02, 2009 at 17:15 UTC ( [id://798912]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Industry Specific Uses of Perl

In the automotive industry (where the majority of my clients come from at work), Perl is being used quite a lot for automating all kinds of tasks, such as glueing together other domain-specific applications (Catia, Nastran, ANSA,...) to allow a coherent data- and workflow.  Data format conversions, automatic document generation (of test/simulation results, etc.), and scriptable interfaces to various databases are other typical usages.

With any application that's primarily meant to be used interactively, people sooner or later get tired of babysitting their computers with repetitive tasks, so some scriptable interface is wanted, and that's where Perl often comes in... I think in part because engineers often want to understand and/or make minor modifications to their tools, and somehow - in my experience - Perl seems to be the scripting language most compatible with a typical engineer's mind set :)

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