Perl usage these days?

[Arvin Portlock]

Anecdotally, I tend to rely on new programming books hitting
the book stores. There are more new perl books nowdays than
there ever were. Lots more C# and .NET. Lots more Java. But
a LOT less C and C++.

 

[thumb_42]

I wrote a frontend for the audio system at an improv comedy club in Perl/Tk.
It interfaces between a MySQL backend and an XMMS frontend, and runs under
X11 or Win32.

http://www.lunenburg.org/mrvoice/

The great GUI bindings, combined with the vast module selection and Perl's
ease of use, let me get a very useful and functional app up and running in
a short period of time.

Looks impressive.

Do you have issues in distributing/installing it compared to say, a jar
file?

Both PHP and Perl have a lot of issues in making software hard to install.
I'd say they're about equal with perl just slightly better than PHP in terms
of installation of 3rd party applications. (perl PAR looks promising in this
regard to compete with java's .war files)

Jamie

 

[Ben Morrow]

Both PHP and Perl have a lot of issues in making software hard to install.
I'd say they're about equal with perl just slightly better than PHP in terms
of installation of 3rd party applications. (perl PAR looks promising in this
regard to compete with java's .war files)

PAR is pretty much perfect as far as distribution goes: it lets you
make a distro assuming any of no perl, perl binary only, perl + core
modules, perl + core + other modules.

Ben

 

[H. Wade Minter]

Looks impressive.

Thanks - I was pleased how well everything came together, especially since
I'm not a very good coder.

Do you have issues in distributing/installing it compared to say, a jar
file?

Both PHP and Perl have a lot of issues in making software hard to install.
I'd say they're about equal with perl just slightly better than PHP in terms
of installation of 3rd party applications. (perl PAR looks promising in this
regard to compete with java's .war files)

Most of the users of the software besides myself are on Windows, so I used
to use Perl2EXE's eval version to distribute the sript in a single Windows
..EXE. However, starting from the last release going forward, I'm using PAR,
which does a great job and is Free to boot.

I think Autrijus' and the PAR team's work is going to provide big benefits
for people who need to distribute complex Perl applications, and encourage
everyone to check them out at http://par.perl.org/

--Wade