Re: CamelBones: Will hack for food!

At 5:25 PM -0400 5/8/07, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>there's a very widespread misconception that Perl is useful for 
>system admins, web developers, and little else. One thing I find 
>personally frustrating is the corollary, that Perl *programmers* 
>must be admins or web devs. I find that frustrating because I'm not 
>an admin, and while I don't mind web work, I don't want to focus on 
>it exclusively.
>
>So, what can be done to change that?...

I certainly don't know -- I'm a physician, not a professional 
programmer, but I have used many scripts, including scripts written 
in Perl, to increase my office productivity and to make throughput 
easier. I also use it in non-office matters as my tool of choice 
whenever graphic files are involved.

In general, I find Perl to be very useful when I'm dealing with data 
that is mostly in the form of strings, which happens for me in a 
number of cir***stances.

HTH,

Jonathan