Browsing through the various modules on CPAN will get you already a (non quantitative) idea of the areas where Perl is used.

But many industries use the generally applicable basic elements of Perl, such as DBI/DBD, web-frameworks, (language) parsing techniques, regular expressions, text munging, glue, ....

To give but one example: I work in insurance broking and I use Perl to maintain the database of the insurance claims of our clients; to parse the various data-formats in use by the insurers; to make automatic reports (through LaTeX, useing Perl as a glue language) and to run various kinds of statistics on the claims database for risk management purposes. And then I am forgetting about the countless little "one off" scripts to do all kind of things which would be tedious or difficult or error prone to do by hand.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: Industry Specific Uses of Perl by CountZero
in thread Industry Specific Uses of Perl by Anonymous Monk

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