Karsten Farrell wrote:
> rgaffuri_at_cox.net said...
>
>>What do you use it for? Trying to decide whether I should spend the
>>time to learn the basics. Looks like its just a scripting language
>>that allows for file manipulation. Is there anything in perl that I
>>cant do with awk or with Korn easily?
>>
>
> It's probably most often used as a CGI scripting language for serving up
> web pages, sometimes based on data retrieved from a database. IMO, it's
> much more powerful than Korn shell scripts. It has a lot of siblings
> that do similar things ... like Python or awk variants (nawk, gawk,
> etc).
>
> Personally, I think it lost a lot of its popularity when it was unjustly
> accused of being a security concern (which was actually a problem with
> poorly-written, server-side scripting languages in general).
>
> It's not a bad language to learn. But like most languages, if you don't
> use it very often, you'll quickly forget the syntax. The best bet is to
> wait until you need it for a specific job/task, then learn it.
>
> It's a great way to analyze Oracle log files. Very powerful regular
> expression capability. Not as cryptic as awk; more cryptic than Python.
> Any computer language always has its disciples and its critics.
A classic example being oracletool
http://oracletool.com
Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 18:15:41 CDT
