>
> I will try to post the name of the book and post it here, and will try to
> get success story blurbs to perl.org
Wow,
That is most encouraging. I'll definately am interested.
FWIW, solutions books and articles seem to crawl out of the woodwork in other
development environments, namely VB and Java. Not trying to get in to a
comparison here with those camps, but in our camp we seem to only cater to
developing the programmer within the language and usage of the modules and
those topics are harder to come across. Please don't get me wrong, this is
absolutely vital for the success of the language (educating the programmers
as we do) and I have absolutely loved the Cookbook, Effective Perl
Programming, etc. However, I must admit that when faced with challenges and
requests from other directors in this changing industry, I almost slobber
when I see titles like:
"Business objects in VB"
or
"Building a CRM system in Java"
and so forth.
Slobbering only in relief that I might be able to quickly borrow those ideas
from other people and catapult my efforts further ahead.
Maybe there exists such a resource and I'm not aware, but if not I'd love to
see a "solutions Cookbook with Perl" that might include topics such as:
* Calculating Present Value with Perl (okay, boring and icky but still
valid)
* Benefits enrollment templates for HR
* Document management web applets
* Legacy data access portals
I dunno, whatever. Not sufficiently caffeinated this evening but I'm sure you
get the gist. If a book is not appropriate, then maybe articles at
www.perl.com
What ever became of Perl's presence in the Dr. Dobbs publication??
I recall that being discussed here some months ago
Rodney
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 08:40 pm, you wrote:
> > Rodney said:
> > Has anyone from this group written core financial apps in Perl ? If so,
>
> can
>
> > I hear about it and can we get some of those stories in to the Success
> > Stories listing?
>
> My company, eXtropia, has developed financial apps in Perl both in Malaysia
> and the UK. Gunther and I also contributed a chapter to a book recently
> that has some chapters devoted to Perl in the financial sector. Morgan
> Stanley is also a big user of Perl.
>
> I will try to post the name of the book and post it here, and will try to
> get success story blurbs to perl.org
