I like perl because it's versitile. I can learn one language and have something that works well creating reports, making web-based applications and sites, and have a very powerful scripting language (that is fairly easy to replace or work with bourne and ksh/zsh) - these 3 being my main three jobs at work. Also perl's just fun to create useless and strange looking programs with which you can amaze your friends ;). I dislike using perl for executables. I've been looking at PAR (and other such modules/methods) but have yet to have a chance to try it, so that might change.

I note you didn't meantion your reasons for liking/disliking perl and if we are to tell our reasons it's only fair that you share your's.