This article is timeless and timely. The former accurately portrays the yearning for the right tool to do the job. Sleepless nights and turning and tossing. The latter now prompts me to revisit a project put aside for the last 4 years. I encountered Perl at about the time that the article was written to process Excel files. I hated and do hate manual data entry and carve up scripts and makefiles to automate the task. Then the idea of a GUI came up and attempted to develop a GUI for the end users using the Win32 OLE Perl Module. And had a look at Perl/Tk but the program became increasingly lengthy and I had to put it aside. That's 2004.
Your piece on Pyhton objects for the fetchmail conf is inspirational and may be just what I need. I had looked at Python two years ago, documented my encounter but now will revisit it again.
For small jobs on data processing, Perl still shines but for bigger projects such as the one I have and another that was floated around in 2001, Python may be the right tool for it.
It will be an adventure.
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