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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>Nice. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>I work with (among other things) a 15-year old, unix-based turn-key business system, and perl is the best duct tape for this thing that I know of.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>I'm just finishing up a 4 - 5 thousand-line perl program to do health monitoring on it. I really love how hashes and lists can be combined into ad-hoc composite objects. Essentially its object-oriented programming without all the formalization... Ya gotta love it!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>-Pat</P>
<P><BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3><BR><BR></FONT>------ Original Message ------<BR><B>Received: </B>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:46:56 PM PDT<BR><B>From: </B>schuh <schuh@farmdale.com><BR><B>To: </B>"David S. Patterson" <david.s.patterson@usa.net><BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: SPUG: Is Perl for .NET on anyone's radar?<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; WIDTH: 100%">David, <BR><BR>>I guess I'm in a shrinking minority, a perl programmer who writes <BR>>non-web-based computer applications. <BR><BR>Perhaps, but not a minority of one - the code I've been working these last <BR>few weeks is Perl (with some shell scripts) for testing. Doesn't write any <BR>HTML at all. <BR><BR>-- <BR>Mike Schuh - Seattle, Washington USA <BR>http://www.farmdale.com <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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