Perl Programming

I'm a Perl fanatic. Ever since I learned of it waaay back in 1995, I've been able to do amazing things with it, primarily in my job function as a programmer.

As a programmer, I face two daily tasks. First is writing code to accomplish something for the company, i.e. business logic. Web pages for example. The other task is managing piles and piles of data that a company has to manage.

1. Programming requires writing code. Believe it or not, at every job I have used Perl at one time or another to write code for me. Perl is wonderful for code generation. The code I've generated the most of using Perl is: Java.

2. Data is strewn in multiple formats in multiple places. And Perl is supreme at data mining. Whether I'm scraping web pages or tossing binary digits, Perl is awesome.

So if you have to handle data, I suggest Perl is the best fit for the job. It's not that you can't do it with other languages (I've used, and still use, Java, Python, C, AWK, SmallTalk, JavaScript, ActionScript, Ruby, Flex, and LISP); it's just that Perl is handier.