in reply to So Whatcha use perl for anyway?

Anything. Well, common stuff like web frontends, log parsing, sysadmin task in general, but then some odd uses in which perl shines, too, amongst them:

So, little useful stuff, except where needed. (update) Needed things:

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}