Perl is so delightfully insidious this way. It's like a virus because it's so useful. :)

I love perl, I really REALLY do, but once you know any language fairly well, you can develop in it very well. You're prolly been in service ever since since you are a good developer. :)

I'd take statements like that as annecdotal. Ask steve gibson and he'd be quick to say ASM is the way to go. Lord help me if I ever write mail programs in ASM when I can do it so much faster in other languages.