Dear monks,

I saw in this section many wise words discussing Perl-related job in office, and how to convince boss on some Perl opinion, so I beleive I chosed right place to ask.

I work in language translation department and heavily use Perl for many translation work.
I prepare files for translators, and my job is to reuse old translations and provide convenient file format, terminology, etc.

Now boss asks me by e-mail 

What would you say the incremental (FY06 over FY05)
savings (=cost reduction) are through your Perl scripts?
So not the total savings achieved that way but the
incremental savings over last year in dollars.

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The thing is - I did huge cost reduction in FY05 with a help of bunch of Perl scripts, and I hardly will do the same in FY06, because such savings are impossible to do :)
Now in FY06 I did my ordinary work, with a lot of help from Perl, but no more such projects.
But answering that now "incremental savings are negative" is obviously wrong.

I feel if I'll answer wisely our department will probably gain better resources for Perl usage,
and mistakes in my message could cost me moving to other platforms etc.

Do you guys have ideas to share?

Thank you all in advance for all good advices you'll provide.
vkon

update fixed typo in the title

In reply to (OT) Boss asks "Incremental savings through Perl Scripts..." what to answer? by vkon

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