I guess I fall into the first category - those who use Perl for most things. While not 100% of my coding is in Perl, Perl is usually my first choice language.

What my Perl does at work:

• Send email (I built an email engine for our outbound marketing email with a rough speed of 40-50,000 personalized emails/hour. The average size list that's sent right now is anywhere from 100,000 - 450,000 addresses.
• Build lists of email addresses for mailings from our customer database. I have a number of list building scripts that do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to building outbound email lists:
  * build lists based on SQL query
  * build a list of x random users based on a SQL query
  * create an A/B split of a list
  * split one list based on another
• Create XML feeds for partners
• Handle incoming data feeds
• Provide web-based self service tools for other departments

I'm sure there are other scripts I've missed but these are the ones I work with the most.

Oren

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