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Regular Coder Gender:  Posts: 64 Topics: 20
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November 20, 2008, 12:57:16 AM
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Hi how many knows perl programming i know its too old and mostly wont use it but still it has some good applications so perl programmers post about your projects in perl.
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Code Guru Gender: Posts: 1399 Topics: 85
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November 20, 2008, 05:09:55 AM
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Ive done quite a bit in PERL. As a language I like it - before PHP was as popular as it is now I used to write web apps in perl using CGI (Common Gateway Interface). Although I do think PHP has an edge to it.
Nowadays I use it purely for its pattern matching abilities - Ive got quite a few little tools written in perl which work with my programming language (to self document code as one example.) So yes, I still use it, but not as much as I used to.
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Regular Coder Gender: Posts: 64 Topics: 20
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November 21, 2008, 06:02:21 AM
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yeah i too use it for some applications like task management.. PHP has an edge over it and it is famous but i like to use it..
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Code Guru Gender: Posts: 1399 Topics: 85
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November 21, 2008, 06:15:42 AM
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Yer, I agree - I like it too. Id be interested to see what do you think - nowadays when I code in Perl it can seem quite dated, what do you think about this, when comparing it to languages such as Php and Java?
Nick
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Regular Coder Gender: Posts: 64 Topics: 20
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November 21, 2008, 09:08:05 AM
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When comparing with java and PHp i think it is quite OUTDATED but still there are lots of windows applications we can use for....
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Code Guru Gender: Posts: 1399 Topics: 85
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November 21, 2008, 11:10:40 AM
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Im not sure id use the word "outdated" personally, but I do think there are newer things around which take away quite a few of Perl's USPs
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December 10, 2008, 09:27:38 AM
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I did one quick project in Perl for text parsing. It was actually easier to use a language I didn't even know than to figure out how to do it any of the languages I could use at the time!
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Code Guru Gender: Posts: 1399 Topics: 85
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December 10, 2008, 09:57:36 AM
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lol, yup! I find string handling in C can be a real headache at times
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