Actually, I have come to think of Perl as clay whereas most other languages are cludgy like Legos and impose creativity sapping restrictions on you.

Sure, it is easy to snap blocks together to create *something* like what you want, but Perl allows you to finely tune and detail your code to create *exactly* what you want.

Of course, in the hands of a less skilled craftsman, clay is not that easy to work with; but time and patience will make almost anyone good at it :)