I've been perling since 95. Mostly web stuff and utilities for various purposes.
Uses I remember:
- web backend. I've never touched PHP in my life.
- windows desktop scripts for all types of file manipulations and anything else I can automate (ex: rename all files to this mask)
- image processing where I need to get down to the byte level of files like TIFF and PDF.
- simple data migrations
- ETL
- scrapping
- learning regex about 5 years before any of the Window dev drones even heard of it.
I don't try to squeeze perl into any projects but for satisfying requirements in data manipulation it has always been the best choice if it doesn't have to be distributed.
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