in reply to Coding for maintainability

One thing I would definitely change is the following current practice:

if ( defined $people{$user}{'TC_ENG'} ) { $people{$user}{'TC_ENG'}++; $people{$user}{TOTAL}++; } else { $people{$user}{'TC_ENG'} = 1; $people{$user}{TOTAL}++; }

You should know that incrementing a variable containing an undefined value first treats the undef like a zero, which means it ends up with the value 1. And that doing this to a hash key which doesn't even exist yet makes it exist first. So the above can be replaced by

$people{$user}{'TC_ENG'}++; $people{$user}{TOTAL}++;
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