[wainstead]

For me it’s any kind of text processing; especially code generation for some one-off task, like churning out SQL or bash scripts/shell commands. Faster than doing it by hand. __END__ is one of my best friends because I can dump the input data right into the script. On the rare occasion I am irked whatever language I’m working in does not have format/write, which comes from the Fortran tradition iirc.