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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • I wouldn't have ordinarily considered the terminal a tool; to me it's more like air. Gotta have it to work. :)

    I'm kind of surprised to think of what I would list as my most important tools today. If you'd told me this a few years back I never would have guessed it.

    1. Perl (of course)
    2. Cygwin
    3. Cygwin XFree86
    4. ssh
    5. vim (I tried to convert to Emacs in 2002 but got distracted when I was laid off)
    6. CVS (only recently have I finally become an avid CVS user, despite plans to do so for four years
    7. a spreadsheet progr
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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
    • Until tool number 6, I can guess what your daily work deals with, but when you cite spreadsheets, I don't have ideas about how you use them. I am always interested in ways to increase productivity and limit efforts: what do you use spreadsheets for?

      • Heh. Mostly for reporting my todo list and status to my boss. :) But also as an output format for my users and stuff like that. To be honest, I don't personally use them for much that could be described as technical.

        Reviewing my tool list, it also doesn't show the large usage of Oracle.

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        J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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