3. Who uses Perl?

Perl is used in almost every industry, in the private and public sectors, for all kinds of tasks.

Large and high profile websites using Perl include:

• Slashdot http://slashdot.org/
• The Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/
• Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/
• CMPnet technical magazines http://www.cmpnet.com/

Tools and applications written in Perl include:

• Netscape wrote a content management and delivery system, with logging, analysis, and feedback on use, in 3 months.
• Majordomo mailing list software
• MRTG traffic analysis tools
• Weblint, an HTML syntax checker
• swatch, a logfile watching tool
• SATAN, a network security analysis tool
• man2html, used to convert Unix manual pages to HTML