If you are referring to business/commercial projects in the last 5 years then this is what I know: 1) Direct knowledge: I've been involved in a few medium to b

If you are referring to business/commercial projects in the last 5 years then this is what I know: 1) Direct knowledge: I've been involved in a few medium to big projects for two of the big car manufacturers. Currently involved with big reporting / MIS web projects for two of the biggest car rental companies. 2) Word and mouth from ex-colleagues & friends: Perl is heavily used in the financial market, especially here in City of London. After Java, there were lots of Perl programmers who were unfortunately given the boot during the recent financial crisis :( 3) From the grapevine (ie. web!): http://bit.ly/5S7UMa http://bit.ly/5S7UMa This link mentions a list of companies that have had Perl apps built for them in last 5 years. "I would like to know what motivated your choice of language" In my case its mainly because I'm more competent in Perl and its been my main language of choice and circumstances for well over 10 years now. I have and continue to use & play with other languages/frameworks but given a blank slate I think Perl would probably still come out has my #1 choice because of CPAN and its maturity (language & VM).