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# Perl — Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer with Perl competence, you're not necessarily building *entire* applications in it anymore – that’s less common now. Instead, think of Perl as the 'glue' language for system administration tasks, automating repetitive processes, and rapidly prototyping solutions where full-scale development isn't justified. Daily work might involve writing scripts to parse log files (using regular expressions is HUGE), manipulate text data, automate server maintenance, or build quick APIs for internal tools. You’ll likely encounter it when maintaining legacy systems too – many older infrastructures still heavily rely on Perl.

## Weitere Anreicherung

Stage-2 source for future practitioner grounding: arXiv cs.SE (software-engineering preprints).
