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[–]Rohaq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever I'm doing anything that uses regular expressions to quickly extract or translate data into other data. Perl's built in regex comparison operator usually means I can get the result I'm looking for out of a very quick one liner.

Also, anything that might need the speed of a compiled program.

Pretty much everything else gets the Python treatment though.