Test Automation is now my job, and I can tell you that my tasks are much easier accomplished with Perl than any of the other languages I have been using which include TCL\Expect, and VB (*shudder*), as well as a couple proprietary ones: Visual Test, based on VB and WinRunner, based loosly on C.

I still use the others for tasks which they are superior for but everything is glued together with Perl and Perl is the bulk of my new code.

"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!