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One of my early jobs in the industry, some 20 years ago, was at a little company that had a stock trading system mostly written in Perl. My experience with Perl
by vinkelhake 5y ago
One of my early jobs in the industry, some 20 years ago, was at a little company that had a stock trading system mostly written in Perl. My experience with Perl prior to that had been simple CGI programming and odd scripts. The trading system was for the exchange side. Working on that system taught me a lot of things ("wtf is bless?"). Perhaps most importantly it showed me that Perl can be beautiful.
That system ran a few small exchanges for many years. I doubt anyone who traded on them knew that their orders were handled by a big Perl system.
- technofiend 5y agoOne of my earliest jobs while still in high school was working for a laser printing and microfiche shop. We got all kinds of tapes from customers in all sorts of formats so I built a skillset of parsing and manipulating data in the tools available which were Snobol, PL/1 and Fortran. Lol. Later after devouring the dragon book and learning YACC and so on it was hella fun to write parsers in 'C' for my new employer. In fact I got a contract to do some data munging for a gas pipeline because their processes needed some serious help, and that's when I discovered PERL. Larry Wall's reporting language turned me into a super hero because although I was already fast dealing with data, PERL meant I could turn around any request in a few hours. It was (and still is) amazing.