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General Enquiry regarding the Perl
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| Rajat Dudeja 2005-04-18, 3:56 pm |
| Hi All,
I have just joined this group two days back. So 'Hello' to every one out
there.
I am new to Perl and I want to do some project in it. I have some very
basic queries in Perl, so thought of writing to the group :
1 Could some suggest me what all I can do in Perl?
2 I also want to know what all are the applications of Perl ? Is it only
used for System Admin kind of work or things beyond that ?
Kindly excuse me if any of my these basic questions are not permissible to
be asked in this group.
--
Warm regards,
Rajat
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| Chris Devers 2005-04-18, 3:56 pm |
| On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Rajat Dudeja wrote:
> 1 Could some suggest me what all I can do in Perl?
It can solve many problems with computers.
> 2 I also want to know what all are the applications of Perl ? Is it
> only used for System Admin kind of work or things beyond that ?
Yes.
It can solve many problems with computers.
> Kindly excuse me if any of my these basic questions are not
> permissible to be asked in this group.
You're welcome to ask, but don't be surprised if wildly open ended
questions are met with wildly open endd responses :-)
Now. Do you have *specific* things you want to do with Perl?
The only useful answers we can give are to specific questions, and the
more specific the question, the more concrete & useful this list can be.
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Chris Devers
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| Brian Barto 2005-04-18, 3:56 pm |
| Hi!
"1 Could some suggest me what all I can do in Perl?"
The list would be smaller if you'd asked "what CAN'T you do with perl?".
Perl is a very powerful programming language. Speaking from personal
experience, it's helped me elevate myself above my peers and is directly
responsible for the high success of many of my projects over the last few
years. I've been able to accomplish tasks that high priced proprietary
software could not. Perl is a tool. If you are good at solving problems, and
can leverage perl as your tool to help you do so, there really isn't much
you can't do, within the computer realm.
"I also want to know what all are the applications of Perl ? Is it only
used for System Admin kind of work or things beyond that ?"
Automating common or routine system tasks is one application. Gives you more
free time to work on projects. Using CGI for dynamic web pages and reporting
is another good application. Systems monitoring is a big one for me. I use
perl to monitor our UNIX environment and to query network devices for status
information. You can write network sniffers, manipulate images, query
databases, or wrap binaries. The list goes on and on.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rajat Dudeja [mailto:rajat.dudeja@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:02 AM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: General Enquiry regarding the Perl
Hi All,
I have just joined this group two days back. So 'Hello' to every one out
there.
I am new to Perl and I want to do some project in it. I have some very
basic queries in Perl, so thought of writing to the group :
1 Could some suggest me what all I can do in Perl?
2 I also want to know what all are the applications of Perl ? Is it only
used for System Admin kind of work or things beyond that ?
Kindly excuse me if any of my these basic questions are not permissible to
be asked in this group.
--
Warm regards,
Rajat
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| Octavian Rasnita 2005-04-18, 3:56 pm |
| Hi,
You can do many things with Perl.
You can write CGI applications for web servers that run under many operating
systems including Unix, Macintosh, Windows, and many others.
You can write programs that run as a apache module for the web.
You can create a lot of types of programs for monitoring the servers, to
process data from many types of sources, you can create html files, pdf
files, images, MS Excel files, you can access possibly all the database
types under all operating systems where perl can work.
You can create programs with a graphical interface for Unix or Windows, and
there are more libraries that can be used for that.
You can create different type of servers, clients for those servers,
messenger clients for the most known messaging systems, programs that can be
used to send SMS, and many many other things.
Teddy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajat Dudeja" <rajat.dudeja@gmail.com>
To: <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: General Enquiry regarding the Perl
Hi All,
I have just joined this group two days back. So 'Hello' to every one out
there.
I am new to Perl and I want to do some project in it. I have some very
basic queries in Perl, so thought of writing to the group :
1 Could some suggest me what all I can do in Perl?
2 I also want to know what all are the applications of Perl ? Is it only
used for System Admin kind of work or things beyond that ?
Kindly excuse me if any of my these basic questions are not permissible to
be asked in this group.
--
Warm regards,
Rajat
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| Rajat Dudeja 2005-04-25, 3:56 pm |
| Hello,
Thanks a lot Teddy ,Chris ,Brian and Ashoka for letting me know such a wide
scope of perl. Just one more enquiry...hope you guys won't mind.
Right now i am reading the book "Learning Perl".
After going through this book I am intending to read "Perl Cookbook" ,would
it be right ? Or, shall I go for some other books, obviously reading and
attempting to answers to questions in these mails would be a nice option?
Kindly let me know of the other options as well.
Best Regards,
Rajat
On 4/18/05, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@fcc.ro> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You can do many things with Perl.
>
> You can write CGI applications for web servers that run under many
> operating
> systems including Unix, Macintosh, Windows, and many others.
> You can write programs that run as a apache module for the web.
>
> You can create a lot of types of programs for monitoring the servers, to
> process data from many types of sources, you can create html files, pdf
> files, images, MS Excel files, you can access possibly all the database
> types under all operating systems where perl can work.
>
> You can create programs with a graphical interface for Unix or Windows,
> and
> there are more libraries that can be used for that.
>
> You can create different type of servers, clients for those servers,
> messenger clients for the most known messaging systems, programs that can
> be
> used to send SMS, and many many other things.
>
> Teddy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rajat Dudeja" <rajat.dudeja@gmail.com>
> To: <beginners@perl.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:01 PM
> Subject: General Enquiry regarding the Perl
>
> Hi All,
> I have just joined this group two days back. So 'Hello' to every one out
> there.
> I am new to Perl and I want to do some project in it. I have some very
> basic queries in Perl, so thought of writing to the group :
> 1 Could some suggest me what all I can do in Perl?
> 2 I also want to know what all are the applications of Perl ? Is it only
> used for System Admin kind of work or things beyond that ?
> Kindly excuse me if any of my these basic questions are not permissible to
> be asked in this group.
>
> --
> Warm regards,
> Rajat
>
>
--
Warm regards,
Rajat
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| Rajat Dudeja 2005-04-28, 8:56 am |
| Hi Ashoka,
If I am not mistaken Beginning Perl is the book from Simon Cozens.
Anyways....I am going through both the books as recommended by you.
Thanks a Lot for your support. :-)
Best Regards,
Rajat Dudeja
On 4/25/05, ashoka gupta <ashoka_buddha@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> dear rajat
> if u r able to quickly master the subject,u can read cook book,else first
> go through beginning perl,and the book u r reading,as well as books like
> writing CGI using perl and other primer books,try out examples and tryoutur
> own programms,where i generally fail,have fun programming perl and just go
> ahead.
>
> *Rajat Dudeja <rajat.dudeja@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Thanks a lot Teddy ,Chris ,Brian and Ashoka for letting me know such a
> wide
> scope of perl. Just one more enquiry...hope you guys won't mind.
> Right now i am reading the book "Learning Perl".
> After going through this book I am intending to read "Perl Cookbook"
> ,would
> it be right ? Or, shall I go for some other books, obviously reading and
> attempting to answers to questions in these mails would be a nice option?
> Kindly let me know of the other options as well.
> Best Regards,
> Rajat
>
> On 4/18/05, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> can
> to
>
>
> --
> Warm regards,
> Rajat
>
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Warm regards,
Rajat
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