Yes, this is certainly true. I took the web as my example, because this is without doubt what makes my relationship with Perl a success, but knowing a little about the text file handling capabilities of Perl, the launching of processes, the fact that you can even write a Win32 evil-application in Perl proves what you just said: Perl is a chainsaw and with lots of horse power.

I have also heard some programmers claiming that Perl is sexy, but this is another story :-)