Why do you use Perl?

• I don't. I'm just on PerlMonks for the free beer
• Because Larry's my dad, and he told me I had to
• Perl is just chicken scratch anyway, so when I write all of my code using regex's, people actually think I know what I'm doing
• Because Perl makes easy things easy, and hard things possible
• I was told that if I use Perl, I'm allowed to be lazy, and lazy works for me
• I really like the writing style of many of its books authors
• ...what else is there?
• easy to use, easy to understand
• it has one of the best online communities anywhere

Steve