Reviews and Ratings
A major city, several thousands users, a broken database, all backups corrupted, node is dead...
3 hours of perl... data recovered from broken backups, 2 more hours loading it, the data is reloaded, the node is live again.
It is neither elegant nor nice nor stylish but when looking for solutions it is probably the shortest path.
After years of coding in Perl I've never got to like the code I write, in fact, I often wonder: was it me that wrote this!
After years of coding in Perl I've never stopped learning something new about Perl.
After years of coding in Perl I understood that even being probably the ugliest language in the world as far as code goes it is still the one that turned the most useful of them all.
After years of coding in Perl I never regretted the day I decided to learn it. As a troubleshooter, Perl is probably the most useful tool I've had in my whole life...
It isn't really beautiful... It's simply useful!