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Parsing insurance statistics in a variety of different formats and file-types and storing the data in a MySQL database with DBIx::Class.

Publishing these data on a web-server with Catalyst.

Running all kind of statistical tests on this data and publishing it with LaTeX (of course a Perl script using Template Toolkit writes the LaTeX file).

Lots of little tasks which IT cannot be bothered with and which are already finished before they have looked into it and found one more "Tool" to do it with (rather than learn a proper programming language).

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by CountZero
in thread So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by KurtSchwind

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