Why Perl for Databases?
Ideally suited to data processing:
- parsing, cleansing / filtering / merging and formatting
Applications
- Data Migration
- Data acquisition and reporting
- Web Page creation
Building sharper tools faster
Notes:
=> most data and database related software does one or more of these.
Commercial tools for these tend to lack the flexibility of Perl (in breadth and depth).
You can find yourself wasting time working around the limitations of blunt commercial tools.