in reply to So Whatcha use perl for anyway?
At work:
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Configurtation management automation (deployment control, et al. with CA Allfusion Harvest Change Manager)
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System administration
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Test scripting
At home:
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Cryptography hobby (See brief discussion on my home node)
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My daughter is doing a Science fair project on the affects of Caffeine on Memory and needed several lists of random numbers. I got exactly what she needed in a Perl one-liner and redirected straigiht to the printer. It was 10 minutes including the time to download Activestate.
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