RE: OEMGC and Standard Edition?
- From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, "Kellyn Pedersen" <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:10:43 -0400
That's how I became a perl scripter myself - back in the day when I was a
systems guy, I'd hack something together using a shell script, and inevitably,
someone would want me to shove event details into a database, then they'd want
a web UI, and graphs and charts, and I'd end up rewriting the whole thing in
perl anyway.
So I just started writing everything in perl.
Then I was fortunate enough to go to work at a company whose whole web codebase
was perl, and some of those folks and I started a software company where I work
now....and guess what our software is written in? Yep, Perl.
It's a shame Perl has fallen out of favor for scripting - it really is a nice
language, and CPAN is a huge help. I understand people's complaints about how
it's almost impossible to enforce any kind of coding standards in Perl, because
the language is so forgiving, but I still think it's ideal for infrastructure
management.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jared Still
Sent: Wed 5/5/2010 6:07 PM
To: Kellyn Pedersen
Cc: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Re: OEMGC and Standard Edition?
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Keep it simple, make it robust
>
Simple and robust?
Those 2 do not often go together IMO.
Now if you're using Perl, many scripts can be made to appear simple
by the virtue of a huge collection of modules at cpan.net.
In fact when my shell scripts start getting too complex, they become Perl
scripts. :)
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
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