In the same vein, though sometimes with less detail: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.html http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news

In the same vein, though sometimes with less detail: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.html 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.