I got into Perl about three years ago wanting to convert an HTML version of a Word document to TWiki format retaining links and tables and splitting the document into appropriate pages for the wiki in the process. Since then I've used Perl in a range of tasks including:
- a range of scripts for an automated build system: validating HTML, validating dialog resources, checking version number consistency across projects, ... .
- (to be completed next year) the whole build management system re-written in Perl (currently C++) to allow coordinated build management across multiple computers and Operating Systems and managed through a database backend.
- a Tk application to draw teams for social games for a badminton club.
- a Perl application for generating Windows .msi based installers for our next product release (and a support module soon to be released to CPAN).
- An application that parses Microsoft Visual Studio compiler logs and presents an error summary using a tree control
- Lots of tiny utility apps for all sorts of daily drudge work.
- A very light weight emailing tool when our ISP decided spam could be prevented by limiting the recipient list for email to 20 addresses - which completely bollixed sending out a society newsletter I distribute.
- A web application that calculates diets given isotope data from archaeological sites.
and if any of these sound familiar, it's because many of them have appeared in some fashion in SOPW.
Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees
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