Absolutely. I'm a sysadmin, and have used perl exclusively for all my scripting work since NT4 days. Back then my reasons for learning was that it gave me the ability to do powerful API type things programmatically without recourse to compiled languages, e.g. walking over the registries of hundreds of machines. My colleagues in Unix admin took these sort of things for granted using shell scripts (and perl of course) but the Win32 cmd shell isn't exactly brimming with features.
Even now, with languages like VBScript and JScript sporting a rather more complete feature set, they don't come close to perl's combination of ease of use and low level API access (sockets/C modules/etc.), not to mention support from the community. I've found Win32::Daemon particularly useful - try writing a full blown service in JScript! At my last company I wrote a paper and got agreement from management to make perl the standard for all sysadmin work, and at my new place it's become more or less de facto for the same reasons. Even group policy scripts are all written in perl, using the WSH tie ins. Fantastic, and couldn't do my job without it. Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ????? ???????? Sent: 28 April 2005 16:06 To: [email protected] Subject: General question. Hello, all! Is there any serious usage of Perl for Windows? Here, in Moscow, I know quite few programmers who used to develop using Perl (under UNIX). And I doubt they still do. As for me, I find Perl quite handy and useful. And what they've done in PDK is amazing I guess. But I use it on my own, "for fun". And still I can't see the place of Perl among the other languages/platforms. Nobody here can I guess. So, let us start our little survey, shall we? ;) First question: Why do YOU use Perl for Windows? Thanks in advance, Artem A. Avetisyan. P.S. THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL ACTION!! I'm just interested ;) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs ***************************************************************** Gloucester Research Limited believes the information provided herein is reliable. While every care has been taken to ensure accuracy, the information is furnished to the recipients with no warranty as to the completeness and accuracy of its contents and on condition that any errors or omissions shall not be made the basis for any claim, demand or cause for action. ***************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
