Nah, not obsessed, rather the opposite.

I've cut my teeth on some PVCS wrapper scripts, then moved on to database stuff (DBI:Oracle).

For personal fun and education I did some CORBA and QT stuff and I found that the OO mapping really rocks! (Learning all about Perl shared libs on HP-UX and Sun Solaris in the process)

Then I used Perl to generate entity classes for Java and C++ using a data dictionary dumped out by some Java code in Data::Dumper format.

I then took a job with a telecom SW company, where Perl was used heavily for snmp. I also wrote the smidump -perl code.

Perl is universal duct tape, crazy glue, swiss army knife and first aid kit all into one.

Not that I have message or anything, but certainly viewing Perl as _the_ CGI solution would be a mistake under several aspects.