My first big kid job was taking over ownership of a Perl-based Oracle-backed data warehouse. Mostly it was SQL queries wrapped up with a Perl script executed by cron that output excel workbooks or csvs and emailed or dumped to a file server.
Most of the pivots and reporting tables were actually generated in Perl because it was just nicer to work with than Excel.
It was wonderful, I learned so much, mostly how to love Perl and CPAN.
We merged our telco billing system with our new parent company with some Perl, cron, a couple SQL queries and an FTP server.
I have said it for years and I will continue to repeat. If you could snap your fingers and delete all the Perl code in the world your lights would turn off.
My first big kid job was taking over ownership of a Perl-based Oracle-backed data warehouse. Mostly it was SQL queries wrapped up with a Perl script executed by cron that output excel workbooks or csvs and emailed or dumped to a file server.
Most of the pivots and reporting tables were actually generated in Perl because it was just nicer to work with than Excel.
It was wonderful, I learned so much, mostly how to love Perl and CPAN.
We merged our telco billing system with our new parent company with some Perl, cron, a couple SQL queries and an FTP server.
I have said it for years and I will continue to repeat. If you could snap your fingers and delete all the Perl code in the world your lights would turn off.