I've been reading an excellent column called "Work" by the Jeffreys Copeland and Haemer in SW Expert magazine for a couple of years now, and have yet to see it referenced here at perlmonks, so I thought I'd pass it along. It's a monthly column in which they tackle real world problems, mostly interesting and mostly in perl. Past examples have been predicting the likelyhood of getting certain animal in your box of animal crackers, tallying votes in alternative voting systems, and creating/compressing Palm DOC's, just to name a few. Reading this column actually did a lot to spark my original interest in perl, since it demonstrated the versatility and fun inherent in the language.

You can find it here, under the "Work" section, where all of the past columns are archived as pdf's.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

~d4vis
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