CGI and application programmers certainly do, but sys admins might not.

This has been bugging me. Can't quite figure out why, but I figure responding will at least get it off my mind

I really think this all depends on what you view as a system admins role being. Also I suppoed what platform they are an admin for, but I think that is to a lesser extent. I have been a sysadmin for the last 4 years, and I have rarely used perl -e '' constructs, though I have worked on writing and maintaining perl scripts and apps on a daily basis. Any time it is as trivial as a perl -e '', I use system utilities to get the job done.

I have run just about the full gamut of possible system utilities short of creating a Tk/X based interface. Log parsers, automagic account and quota creation/deletion, wrappers around other system apps allowing for access restriction or business rule adherence, DB interfaces, network aware deamons launcing intersystem apps, yada, yada, yada. I was going to say I haven't built GUIs, but I suppose a browser is a GUI client. I certainly needed more than -e in order to do my job well. Matter of fact the only time I have played with -e, is usually due to a comment in a port or the CB.