More of a poll than a question...
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I use it for things like build scripts[^]. Basically, Perl is a glue script that runs various other pieces of the system.
Albert Holguin wrote:
why did you choose Perl over any other language
It is widely deployed, easy to use and samples are all over the internet.
I'm currently using it for automatic nightly builds, but I want to see what else people are using it for... thanks for the feedback though! :) ...Oh, I'm also using it to help our production guys make software licenses easily with very few options (since they're not very tech savvy)...
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Curious, what are useful things you've used Perl for and why did you choose Perl over any other language?
I use it for quick and dirty searches on "many" large text files. I use it when I need the power of RegEx and need to do it quickly. Overall, text file manipulation is quite easy and quite powerful. Some of our in-house software runs on Perl scripts as well. Important note: If I am going to need to go a few steps more than I will write it in C#...usually.
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I use it for quick and dirty searches on "many" large text files. I use it when I need the power of RegEx and need to do it quickly. Overall, text file manipulation is quite easy and quite powerful. Some of our in-house software runs on Perl scripts as well. Important note: If I am going to need to go a few steps more than I will write it in C#...usually.
does it do searches fast? ...or do you use it because its easy to code searches? I've actually thought about making some perl scripts to help manage my music libary, but its a ~40GB library, so I'm worried about efficiency with A LOT of files.
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does it do searches fast? ...or do you use it because its easy to code searches? I've actually thought about making some perl scripts to help manage my music libary, but its a ~40GB library, so I'm worried about efficiency with A LOT of files.
Albert Holguin wrote:
does it do searches fast?
Extremely fast...at least on my system at work.
Albert Holguin wrote:
or do you use it because its easy to code searches?
Once you get the basics down for Perl, writing a general search script is easy to do. Code reuse makes it even faster.
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Albert Holguin wrote:
does it do searches fast?
Extremely fast...at least on my system at work.
Albert Holguin wrote:
or do you use it because its easy to code searches?
Once you get the basics down for Perl, writing a general search script is easy to do. Code reuse makes it even faster.
excellent feedback!
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Curious, what are useful things you've used Perl for and why did you choose Perl over any other language?
Some years ago now but I needed to access machine files over a large private network from multiple platforms, Windows, SUN systems, straight UNIX, IRMX and others. I used pearl to examine the data, formatted differently on each of these platforms and produce an HTML output that was available as a sort of web site, not a proper one with servers and internet, but enabled users all over the UK saw it like a web site. A small C++ app kicked the process into life every night and this system accessed several hundred machines, also all over the UK, and updated the HTML pages. Pearl is fast and, albeit a bit write only, very good at handling this sort of heavy text manipulation process.
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Some years ago now but I needed to access machine files over a large private network from multiple platforms, Windows, SUN systems, straight UNIX, IRMX and others. I used pearl to examine the data, formatted differently on each of these platforms and produce an HTML output that was available as a sort of web site, not a proper one with servers and internet, but enabled users all over the UK saw it like a web site. A small C++ app kicked the process into life every night and this system accessed several hundred machines, also all over the UK, and updated the HTML pages. Pearl is fast and, albeit a bit write only, very good at handling this sort of heavy text manipulation process.
*Perl* .... thanks for your feedback, but why a C++ app and not just a task/cronjob or what not?
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Curious, what are useful things you've used Perl for and why did you choose Perl over any other language?
I use perl for the following 1. One shots to munge data 2. Producing runtime specific data that is tailored to the environment. 3. Code generation. The reason is that the alternative languages would require more infrastructure work to get to the point where I was actually achieving the intended goal.
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I use perl for the following 1. One shots to munge data 2. Producing runtime specific data that is tailored to the environment. 3. Code generation. The reason is that the alternative languages would require more infrastructure work to get to the point where I was actually achieving the intended goal.
code generation?
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code generation?