Back at school, I'm sneaking Perl into the mix at the Genomics project here. Everything I do this semester on my "Genomics of the Regulatory Regions of Bacterial Flagellar and Motor Genes" project will be in Perl.
Perl is already set (any day now) to go live managing some back end jobs for the existing Motif Lexicon for the Project - linking user searches with data mined from the NCBI PubMed abstract database. Unfortunately the rest of the lexicon project is a big heaping mess of Visual C++ code implementing CGIs under IIS. CGIs ... In C++! Thousands of lines of code waiting to be replaced by 'use CGI;'. Or better yet, to be replaced by a mod_perl handler - Mmmmm... tasty...
--Nat
