You ever use Perl? What are you thoughts? How does it compete with newer languages? Can it be used for the enterprise arena?
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Jump to PostIt clearly states in the Oreilly's books that, what it takes 1 person 3min to accomplish in perl the same task would take 12-13 accomplished programmers in C(ect) a year to accomplish the same goal.
My personal opinion on PERL is that, PERL is JELLO compared to water
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Jump to PostI think that Perl still has its uses in many places in the Unix world. Many things can be more easily done with perl and shell scripting when you don't need the overhead that accompanies newer OOP languages.
It is sorta like assembly language ... knowing it brings a …
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