To paraphrase the Blues-Breakers song I am listening to right now .... "All Your Coding Is Coding".

Absolutely -- it's made me better, faster, and smarter. In some ways, since Perl is easy to make confusing, it's made me even more careful with other languages and side-effects of operations.

The main point though -- nothing is more important than laziness, impatience, and hubris. However, it must be said, the laziness part that says "Hit CPAN!" is sorely missed in most languages!