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    1. 04-24-2010 05:07 AM #1
      Kastro187420
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      Tell me about Perl (programming)

      So I'm slowly trying to pick up Perl. I'm decent at PHP, and I've noticed alot of the syntax is really similar to it, so I understand alot of the "how" already. What I'm mostly interested in, is what kind of things you can do with it, that make it worth learning.

      It doesn't seem like its going to take me too long to pick it up to a half-decent degree, but before I invest alot of time, I'm just curious as to what kind of applications it could allow me to create, and what kind of use it could be in web-development.
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    2. 04-25-2010 09:26 AM #2
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      Perl can be used in a lot of ways. For me, I like to use it to quickly hack up a script to process some data in some way real quickly. I've used it to take a directory full of pictures, and generate a static HTML photo album with thumbnails and everything (invoked imagemagick).

      Once you get good at it, and once you get pretty comfortable with grep/map, you can do some really nice stuff with it really quickly. I just use it as a "quick-n-dirty" tool, though. I'm of the opinion that it's generally not a good idea to do BIG things with it (though it CAN be done... just... ugh maintenance nightmare).
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