[NBLUG/talk] Perl vs other scripting methods

[Steve Johnson]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:09:16AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
> Some years ago when I was working as a DBA, I used Perl to do things 
> like nightly backups.  But time has flown by and I have not used Perl in 
> over 15 years and now need to write some simple scripts.  Should I break 
> out the Perl book (I assume it would still be good enough) or should I 
> learn another scripting language?  As I recall, Perl and Php are similar 
> and I am fairly proficient with Php.

I say stick with PERL for shell scripting.  You will probably find that
you pick it back up pretty quick, probably faster than learning a new
langauge.

My personal rule of thumb is PERL=SHELL STUFF, PHP=WEB STUFF

-Steve


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