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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, John Horne wrote:
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 20:31 +0100, Martijn Grooten wrote:So do people still use Perl professionally? Privately? Are new people (say at uni) still learning Perl?I use perl at work as a sysadmin tool. It is easy (for me now) to quickly put together a short program to (for example) analyse large amounts of output. It is possible to string together commands such a grep, awk, sed etc, but that can at times get a bit convoluted. Using a perl script makes it a bit easier.
I'll probably be regarded as a heretic here, but I use PHP as a sysadmin tool - from the command-line.
I did lots of shells stuff (again, call me a heretic for liking (t)csh), sed/awk/grep, etc. but I'm an old die-hard C programmer - so I treat PHP as a sloppy interpreted C. (And that's C, not C++ I don't do this OO stuff either)
I never really got into perl - odd as one of my old colleagues/good friends has written or co-authored some perl books too. It's mostly a read-only language for me - the only thing I really fiddle with it is mimedefang...
I have used python, but not ruby, but found no real reason to persist with it as I had used perl for a few years prior to looking at python. I saw no reason to change from perl :-)
Looked at python and saw no reason to change from php ;-)
No idea whether perl is taught here.
syadmin isn't taught, it's learned. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html