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Geoffrey Myers

On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> I've noticed that most perl coders see to put subroutines before the main code.
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> In old perl style, file was parsed by perl line by line,
> and the subs did not exist to be referenced by the main code unless they were first. You would get errors for the subs.
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> Perl rocks.
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> For some problems:
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> If you aren't using perl to solve the problem, you don't really understand the problem.
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> And of course, if you are using regular expressions to solve the problem:
> Now you have two problems.
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> We use it a lot for Net::SFTP stuff automation, parsing crappy file formats into SQL databases.. and general system admin stuff.
> And serial communications using LibSerial.
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> Perl rocks.
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