db-guy: "Perl... that would be weird."

me: "Why would that be weird?"

db-guy: "Well, Perl is used for text and strings... it is not really used for programming scientific applications"

me: "and, you think Python and Ruby are better at scientific applications?"

db-guy: "uh huh... I haven't really used Perl or Python or Ruby. It seems that Perl is used more for CGI"