[pasbesoin]

In the same vein, though sometimes with less detail:

http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.h...

O'Reilly also published some of these in at least two folded/stapled pamphlets that were handed out for free e.g. at conferences. I recall a finance-centered application where the Perl prototype far outperformed the subsequent implementation and ended up taking over the production role.

It looks like maintenance at that URL stopped in about 2004, but in googling "perl success stories" I saw a few more recent articles that might qualify.

[rmoriz]

iirc: O'Reilly stopped maintaining perl.com content around that time and finally handed the domain over to the perl foundation a few weeks ago…

http://www.perl.com/pub/2010/07/relaunching-perlcom.html

[chromatic]

Minor nit: the abandoning occurred in 2008.