jest points out that his review of a Perl book has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal:
It's true! My article "[Review of] Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers, by Michael Hammond" has just appeared in the Journal of English Linguistics, XXXI:3 (Sept. 2003).This reminds me of why we use Perl:
Perl is for doing real work, whether you are a linguist, a biochemist, a software vendor or someone writing content managment systems for a living. :-)
