Here are a few that will help you build your case.
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A few notes:
- Perl will run on nearly every operating system a business will have, including some mainframe systems. Well-written Perl can be put on an NFS mount and run from a Win32 and a Unix machine without the need for recompilation.
- Perl has the largest base of already written, freely available, well-tested code, aka CPAN.
- Perl can talk to nearly every single RDBMS used in the business world, and does so with the same interface, aka DBI.
- Perl lends itself to data transformation, due to the prescence of regexes, hashes, and many importer/exporter modules. Examples would include Text::CSV, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, jmcnamara's Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, CGI, DBI, XML::Parser, Template Toolkit, and many others.
In other words, 90% of every single Perl application has already been written. Because of all the available material, the initial development time of Perl tools is less than 1/3 of the equivalent time in any other language with equivalent capabilities.
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What exactly do you mean by 'business case'? (maybe that's a dumb question) Are you looking for examples of people using Perl? Examples of companies that support Perl?
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To mount a case with any chance of success you'll need to take this two step approach:
- find out the criteria for determining a "preferred language"
- make your case based on those criteria
If your work place doesn't have any such criteria you'll just be subject to the prjudices and politics of various individuals at the office.
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