I was going to post something like this a few days ago too. A couple weeks ago, my company had a dire need to FTP a few thousand EPS images off one of our in-house Mac servers while checking our store database to see if they're needed, rename them, throw them through Photoshop (we already had a VB app to run Photoshop actions) that created a couple different sized JPEGs, and then FTP them out to our store server and update the database there. Simple enough, right? It was with Perl. In fact, when my boss and the other developer decided to give this to me, they did it knowing full well I'd use Perl (I'm the only one in the company). As soon as the other developer started telling me about it, I started jotting down pseudo-Perl, to which he replied, "Oh, I knew you had to use Perl for this." When I described the process I was using to my boss, he said, "Oh, I figured you'd use Perl for this." Needless to say, there were some problems with getting the files from the Mac, and I ended up writing another quick script to run on the Mac server to fix some filenames so Windows could get them properly. The Mac admin? "You'll have to show me how you did that, so I can start using that stuff more often." When the whole thing was over, my boss once again told me: "I'm glad somebody's using Perl again." After all that, I promptly went to ThinkGeek and bought the #!/usr/bin/perl sticker for my monitor as a trophy. Another small victory...

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