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On 4/2/23 14:36, Oliver Schoede wrote:
> Seems to me
> people easily forget this but Perl was intended, created to be a tool.
> A text processing tool. Not a language, or environment like Python.


https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394

Marjorie: Back in the beginning, what inspired you to write Perl?

Larry: ... The beginnings of Perl were directly inspired by running into 
a problem I couldn't solve with the tools I had. Or rather, that I 
couldn't easily solve. As the Apostle Paul so succinctly put it, “All 
things are possible, but not all things are expedient.” I could have 
solved my problem with awk and shell eventually, but I possess a 
fortuitous surplus of the three chief virtues of a programmer: Laziness, 
Impatience and Hubris. I was too lazy to do it in awk because it would 
have been hard to get awk to jump through the hoops I was wanting it to 
jump through. I was too impatient to wait for awk to finish because it 
was so slow. And finally, I had the hubris to think I could do better.


> So is it still the first choice for sysadmin work on Linux? Well I
> doubt it, I also doubt it ever was. That would be shell. ;)


+1


> Be that as it may I don't see much of a reason for learning Perl today
> unless you're a die-hard hobbyist with near infinite amount of time
> and an undying penchant for obsolete technology.


I find Perl to be very useful for a great many other tasks, including 
sysadmin.  People can and do write anything from throw-away one-liners 
to N-tier network applications in Perl; some "bet their business" on Perl.


Gaining basic proficiency with Perl requires a moderate investment of 
time, money, and effort.  ~25 years ago, I bought the Llama book, worked 
through the first ~30% in one afternoon, and loved it.  After that, the 
Cookbook provided me with the examples and explanations I needed to 
start writing useful Perl scripts.  The Camel book is the language 
reference; for when you need definitive information:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-8th/9781492094944/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-cookbook-2nd/0596003137/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-perl-4th/9781449321451/


Perl is not obsolete; Perl is mature.


David

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  Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-02 11:10 +0200
  Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-02 11:30 +0200
    Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2023-04-02 11:50 +0200
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                Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-03 05:50 +0200
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