I've been using perl since 1990 - originally for system administration type jobs, then as glue/reporting code in a commodities trading system. Later I was lead engineer on a large data migration project at a large Cable TV company with the target of moving all of their billing data from legacy Tandem and IBM systems to a distributed Sybase system (in perl, of course). Later still a lot of web-related stuff...

Nowadays I mostly write DBA scripts, and maintain the Sybase::* and DBD::Sybase modules.

Michael