There's no such document, and there probably never will:

From: Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com)
Subject: Re: Help! Management Frowns on Using Perl for Production Apps
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Date: 1995-02-11 22:16:04 PST

In article <1995Feb7.210618.760@babel.dialix.oz.au> del@babel.dialix.o
+z.au (Del) writes:
: My current excuse for using Perl is that it's a freeware version of 
+a
: really good new programming language, the standard for which is just
: about to be certified by ISO (or someone else with a really importan
+t
: sounding acronym).

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is...  :-)

Larry
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As for company politics, I think this site isn't the place to discuss. If the sysadmin is unwilling (for whatever reason), talk to your manager. That's what managers are for. If you can make a convincing case, it'll come.

Abigail