On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Francesco Di Lorenzo wrote: > This message is particularly referred to serious programmer (with serious I > mean the ones who do programming for work). > The question is this: > What role do Perl have in your work? In which particular projects you use it? > Do you use it for particular piece of your softwares' source code or you use > it as your main programming language?
I have used it for automating a horribly manual, clerical process on Windows. It involved running SQL queries, putting the results into an Excel spreadsheet, generating some XML files, and monitoring the log file from a long-running Java batch program. Thanks to Perl, to Cygwin, to CPAN, and to the generous help of the contributors to this list, I saved a huge amount of time. The Java program required as many as 2000 operator interventions; I was able to reduce it to 2: starting the monitor program, then starting the Java program. It's my main language these days, if I can help it. Regards, Chap -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
