xern has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Perl is omnipresent in nearly all kinds of computing areas. I wonder if there has been some survey or census on the uses of Perl, and I'm also curious about how much percentage site scraping takes? Thank you.
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Re: Percentage of site scraping out of all kinds of tasks
by jZed (Prior) on Feb 07, 2006 at 06:01 UTC
    Not at all scientific, but google fight says
        perl "site scraping"               423
        perl "system administration" 2,570,000