It could have been written: 
  The world uses Perl to:
And mean the same thing, in English. Why does the world "use" Perl for these things? Because they "need" these things and therefore Perl. So give them more of what they want and use and need! There's no dichotomy between cultivating the good and improving the less good. Perl has made itself essential to things like Debian, SQL and Google! Now the Python people need vital tools written in Perl that make their lives more bearable. Stuff like this: 
2007
pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/fincore/

2008
www.percona.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-tool-ive-been-waiting-for-years/

2018
medium.com/searce/how-max-prepared-stmt-count-bring-down-the-production-mysql-system-6ca28e577663

In reply to Re^2: Writing Popular Perl Software by Anonymous Monk
in thread Writing Popular Perl Software by Anonymous Monk

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