Joe Doe

• Jul 8th, 2006

 

When:

- There's a lot of text processing

- Web-based applications

- Fast/expidient development

- Shell scripts grow into libraries

- Heavy Data manipulation (auditing, accounting, checking etc... backend processing)

- Data extraction

- transform

- loading (database etc.)

- System admin etc...

ashwini chavan

 Profile Answers by ashwini chavan 

• Jul 22nd, 2008

 

When you are developing an application for a real time system in which processing speed is of utmost importnace

deepthi211985

 Profile Answers by deepthi211985 

• Mar 8th, 2010

 

The question is for not using perl for a project but the answer is for using perl.

darshancruz

 Profile Answers by darshancruz 

• Jul 9th, 2010

 

@ joe: isnt this for uses of perl ?

Please can some 1 post a better answer

Rajan Chayanam

• Nov 19th, 2013

 

We would not opt PERL for the following :
1. Basic text manipulation (can be done with shell scripting)
2. For a web application having huge traffic like (twitter/facebook) etc.
3. To develop a CMS/ Blogs / websites (can be done more easily in PHP with tools build on PHP like Drupal / Wordpress etc.)
Thanks,
Rajan

CHAKRAPANI PATEL

• May 29th, 2014

 

Also if you are processing files (size in GB).

Lalit

• Dec 13th, 2014

 

In tasks where performance matters

Chankey Pathak

• Dec 22nd, 2014

 

What a bunch of stupid answers. "In tasks where performance matters"? Really? Do you plan to use Java for such tasks then? Well good luck!

soumdgr8

• Aug 1st, 2015

 

When your management is bad, and OOP is the only jargon they know without knowing its drawbacks.

ahinav

• Aug 22nd, 2015

 

Please read the question again ... when NOT to use perl ....

pritish pattanaik

• Feb 15th, 2017

 

- Dont use Perl when you have no idea about Perl.
- Dont use Perl when you have no idea about its use.
- Dont use Perl if don't understand this (TMTOWTDI)