I was thinking about TMTOWTDI ...
I started to use Perl 7 years ago. Programming is not my main activity but however a relevant part.
Here at my company we use several languages, but for me since then Perl has become more and more important: for writing scripts to do whatever processing of row files we need to manipulate, to produce shape files, PDF files, to run batches, to administer the network. Also we built some large web applications that integrate GIS and graphical packages, execution of external applications, RSS management, wiki stuff, data transfer, access to SQL databases over the internet... fortunately this has always been paid work.
The interesting thing is that when I come here and I read the postings, I can understand much less than 50% of them. So I feel I really know very few of Perl.
I'm sure we reinvented the wheel several times ( ok, we at least use CGI.pm and XML::Simple :)) ), and I'm sure it was never perfectly round.
But the beauty of Perl is that we always had the work done - whatever it was - with satisfaction of our clients. And our satisfaction: it let's you totally express your creativity.
So thanks Perl and its community here... for what I can understand :))

In reply to I understand TMTOWTDI... by Anonymous Monk

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