Perlgeek.de has some articles on the transition from Perl5 to Perl6, while clearly explaining the differences between those versions. Very interesting, not only for a Perl6 introduction, but the articles also learnt me some new Perl tricks I didn't master yet.
Speaking of Perl, it keeps amazing me what someone can do with this language. In our new TSM version, IBM changed the web frontend to a full blown Websphere application, called ISC, with of course its own user database, different from the one in TSM, and kept in an unaccessible format. That's a big problem in an organisation which has about 150 TSM operators. We almost feared that this would end up in a manual definition of those people. It was there that I grabbed the documentation from WWW::Mechanize, which I discovered during my Test::More enlightenment. Within two hours, I had hacked up a Perl script which pulled all info about the operators from TSM, and entered them automagically in ISC.
Love this stuff !
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