[BNE-PM] What do you use Perl for?

[Mike Bissett]

Well,  
	Ive used perl since I was at high school, 
generally for dynamic template driven websites with and 
sql backeds (the most famous site I can claim a hand to is 
the register - http://www.theregister.co.uk) which uses 
perl and mysql. At present where I work now (queensland 
government) we use perl to interface with our LDAP and 
X500 direcrtory services. We use perl to deal with 
replication, management, email updates, direct updates and 
of course for the background for the web frontends for 
browsing and updates. Id never user Directories like LDAP 
before i came here and now i wish id used them for most of 
the stuff ive done before, there great. My favourite 
modules must be DBI::, Template::Toolkit, mod_perl and 
Date::Manip ( i know Date::Manip is slow but you can give 
it next tuesday as an input date and it works !!).  
 
I always seem to end up making web based diaries and 
organisers... 
 
Mike Bissett 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Derek Thomson <derek at wedgetail.com> 
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:44:32 +1000 
To: brisbane-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org 
Subject: [BNE-PM] What do you use Perl for? 
 
 
> Hi, 
>  
> Just for the sake of starting a thread, I want to get 
some idea of what  
> everyone is using Perl for in their workaday existences. 
>  
> I use Perl for everything I can, so I'll just pick the 
most interesting. 
>  
> I am implementing a C SSL toolkit for embedded systems. 
I generate the  
> SSL presentation layer C code that reads and writes 
specific SSL  
> handshake messages directly from the SSL specification 
with a Perl program. 
>  
> The SSL spec has it's own simple language for describing 
the message  
> format, so it's simply a matter of parsing that and then 
writing out  
> corresponding C data structures and functions. This way 
I can easily  
> cope with changes to message formats, and add new 
messages for  
> supporting different SSL versions easily. 
>  
> It also means I can generate "Dump" functions for each 
message type that  
>   output an SSL message in a very nicely formatted and 
indented way -  
> much more readable than the hex dumps you get with other 
SSL packages. 
>  
> To do this I use the unbelievably wonderful 
Parser::RecDescent module  
> from CPAN (http://www.cpan.org). 
>  
> -- 
> D. 
>  
>  
 
     
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