Andrey Bronfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> i want to convince the managers & co-workers at my company to start using
> perl as a standart scripting language here.
> So I need your input on the following points , please :
> 1) success stories : which tasks can be most easily accomplished with perl ,
> i.e. examples of what perl is best for (better than C ,Java , Pl/SQL etc ...
> - unofficially , of course) ;
> 2) who uses perl most (sysadmins , DBAs , etc.. ) and how they benefit from
> it .
> 3) advantages of knowing perl career-wise .
> BTW , it would be interesting to know which postions do list-subscribers
> hold : developers , administrators etc ...
> Does anyone of U do perl development as their primary job , i.e. is there a
> "Perl developer" position in your organization.
I have developed a number of projects here that are 100% Perl.
The biggest is an extensible SNMP network management system.
~ >30K lines.
I have had trouble with my management. The primary problem is:
"How can we sell this product for tens of thousands of dollars
when we give them the source code."
My rebuttal is: "Our customers are in the business of X, not
stealing and reselling management systems!"
Why Perl? as opposed to C, Java, C++? FAST development time!
I just can't beat it in any of the other languages. (Thats based on my
over 25 years experience as a 'professional' programmer.)
As for "advantages of knowing perl career-wise". I think its a
great thing. It gives you a _good_ alternate view into problem
solving. The downside is that others will hate you for being
a rebel, and for being able to solve problems an order of magnitude
faster than they can with a whole lot fewer bugs (memory allocation
and buffer overflow bugs, just to name a few).
Perl has been my 'primary' tool now for almost 3 years (solid).
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