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Perl enabled me to take a business-owner's disorganised national spreadsheet of teachers, locations and contact details and turn it into a web application, freeing him from fielding phone calls all day and boosting conversions over a period of 15 years. Perl's superb regex handling was essential in extracting and gradually refining the data until it was fit to be entered into a database. From that point on Perl, along with PostgreSQL, literally ran the business while generating opportunities for hosting promotions with bigger companies. Those who (m|kn)ock Perl usually haven't spent a significant amount of time using it to add real value to a business.