In a friendly discussion, we reached to arguing which language has the longest words so I just baked a gadget that grabs a web page from some URL, strips off HTML code, switches to the appropriate locale and then passes the preparsed text to a routine that returns a list with the longest words.
Simple. Heh, we settled that Germans use by far more lengthy words than others :)
Yet, my perl issue is that I really wonder what would be a shorter solution for my longest_words routine. Here is the code, in a complete test case snippet: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -Twl
use strict;
use List::Util qw(max);

my @lw = longest_words(join '', <DATA>);
local $" = ', ';
print length($lw[0]), ' letters: ', "@lw";

sub longest_words {
    local $_ = $_[0];
    my %W;
    $W{$1} = length($1) while /\b(\w+)\b/sg;
    my $ll = max values %W;
    return grep { $W{$_} == $ll } keys %W;
}

__DATA__
three four five six seven eight nine foobar obsolescent
superfluous inevitable pseudohash pseudonym pseudopod

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