calling all perl freaks!!

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:53 pm

Hi guys!

I have been working in Perl for more than one year now and am completely facinated by the brilliance of the same.

Wld like to know how many in Hyd are actually Perl buffs like me? If the number is quite decent,then I am seriously thinking of starting a perl discussion forum.

Any takers?

by **azazel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:40 pm

sorry dude, enlighten me on waat this Perl is?

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:41 pm

Perl is a scripting language used extensively on the web. That's all I know about it.

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:58 pm

Habitual Perfectionist wrote:Perl is a scripting language used extensively on the web. That's all I know about it.

Thats right...Perl is a scripting language...but it is ideally suited for many activities other than web pages....it is excellent for parsing data from any files....the one feature "regular expressions" of Perl makes it suitable for practically doing anything with the textual inputs.

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:00 pm

hmmm..actually am quite disappointed...aren't there any many nerds and geeks out here in Hyderabad who like Perl (or for that matter any programming language)?

by **Sharjeel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:02 pm

Haan.

There was a lot of Hullaballu over PERL (just like with Delphi!). But i dont think it has quite lived up to the Hype. Or has it?

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:05 pm

Well Karthik....used to bea heavy into programming till around 8 years ago...the last I touched was C++. And you know what an 8 year hiatus from the field means.

Have just kept in touch with the developments ever since through reports on the web, magazines etc. Anyways....wait a while and you should see some more people responding to this. We do have a few geeks around.

By the way, what do you do? are you studying or working? Better still, why don't you introduce yourself for the benefit of other DBites?

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:06 pm

Karthik wrote:hmmm..actually am quite disappointed...aren't there any many nerds and geeks out here in Hyderabad who like Perl (or for that matter any programming language)?

....no...no...not ANY language....i love VB in all its flavors...

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:09 pm

No...I think Perl has quite lived upto its expectations...in fact it might have surpassed....I know of some firms that initially planned to migrate its web system to JSP but then had to revert back to Perl due to varied reasons.

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:11 pm

Sharjeel wrote:Haan.

There was a lot of Hullaballu over PERL (just like with Delphi!). But i dont think it has quite lived up to the Hype. Or has it?

True....AFAIK, PERL hasn't really lived upto its promise in terms of user base. Delphi was a good product...but it was effed bigtime by Powerbuilder, which was superior and which was in turn, effed by Larry Ellison.

Besides the point....Larry Ellison rocks. He's the man.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:12 pm

Karthik wrote:No...I think Perl has quite lived upto its expectations...in fact it might have surpassed....I know of some firms that initially planned to migrate its web system to JSP but then had to revert back to Perl due to varied reasons.

a few years ago everyone and his uncle wanted to learn Perl...then it seemed to have disappeared...wat hapnd?

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:13 pm

ok..let me introduce myself....I am working in MNC here in Hyderabad as a Perl/Sybase programmer.....just have been into this industry for one year......my hobbies are programming (of course) playing tennis,soccer and watching sci-fi hollywood movies.

Have tried my hands at making some girlfriends but failed miserably (BTW I don't talk much abt programming to girls lest they may assume that I am *only* a nerd)

Anything else that u wanna know abt me?

Would like to make friends with u guys...don't have much friends here.

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:15 pm

Welcome to the boards Karthik.

Karthik wrote:Anything else that u wanna know abt me?
Would like to make friends with u guys...don't have much friends here.

Keep posting. you'll have quite a few friends soon.

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:18 pm

Hey guys!

I actually quite liked ur signatures...keep rocking guys!

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:20 pm

Karthik wrote:Hey guys!
I actually quite liked ur signatures...keep rocking guys!

Thank you

by **Karthik** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:20 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:
Karthik wrote:No...I think Perl has quite lived upto its expectations...in fact it might have surpassed....I know of some firms that initially planned to migrate its web system to JSP but then had to revert back to Perl due to varied reasons.
a few years ago everyone and his uncle wanted to learn Perl...then it seemed to have disappeared...wat hapnd?

Why uncle...why not aunty?

BTW here is a PJ:

Why was uncle always late than aunty to office?

A: Because there is no uncle-clockwise as compared to a(u)nti-clockwise.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:27 pm

Karthik wrote:Perl/Sybase programmer

Sybase?? i used to work with it abt 6 yrs ago....thats one great DBMS....its lack of reach n popularity is a shame

Karthik wrote:Have tried my hands at making some girlfriends but failed miserably

try, try, try again and thou shalt bag a girl soon!

its 50% perspiration and 50% luck

Karthik wrote:Would like to make friends with u guys...don't have much friends here.

u r welcome here...just dont restrict yr topix to tech stuff....let loose yr sense of humour and watch yr friend-count increase...!

by **Sharjeel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:30 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:u r welcome here...just dont restrict yr topix to tech stuff....let loose yr sense of humour and watch yr friend-count increase...!

And Please, please please no more PJs!

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:30 pm

Karthik wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:a few years ago everyone and his uncle wanted to learn Perl...then it seemed to have disappeared...wat hapnd?
Why uncle...why not aunty?

:roll: political correctness? ok...lemme rephrase....

a few years ago everyone and his or her uncle or aunt, mom or dad, brother or sister, grandpa or grandma or any male or female relative plus anyone of indeterminate gender wanted to learn Perl...then it seemed to have disappeared...wat hapnd?

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:32 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:
Karthik wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:a few years ago everyone and his uncle wanted to learn Perl...then it seemed to have disappeared...wat hapnd?
Why uncle...why not aunty?
:roll: political correctness? ok...lemme rephrase....

a few years ago everyone and his or her uncle or aunt, mom or dad, brother or sister, grandpa or grandma or any male or female relative plus anyone of indeterminate gender wanted to learn Perl...then it seemed to have disappeared...wat hapnd?

You could have had it easy by typing Alex instead of all that.

by **azazel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:25 pm

Habitual Perfectionist wrote:You could have had it easy by typing Alex instead of all that.

or Kenny

whrz the lad anyway? havent seem him arnd for sometime, did i really kill him last time? :roll:

n oh Welcome Karthik.

by **kkp** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:13 pm

Hai,

I am working with a MNC in Madhapur, Hyderbad and I have worked on Perl. Am interested to learn Sybase....can anyone help me out?

by **lonewolf** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:19 am

Karthik wrote:Hi guys!

I have been working in Perl for more than one year now and am completely facinated by the brilliance of the same.

Wld like to know how many in Hyd are actually Perl buffs like me? If the number is quite decent,then I am seriously thinking of starting a perl discussion forum.

Any takers?

Yeah I've been working on and off with Perl for 7 years.. and its my favourite programming language

Nothing comes close to it.. I just love the regex part, not to mention its other rich features like CGI... You are still a kid to Perl I guess

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