If being Damian Conway's fanboy is a bad thing then I don't even want to know what good is! :-)

But, in all seriousness, Perl's best feature is the community. We have people to look up to. We have great minds that aren't afraid to go out on a limb and participate in a community. People share their code, and let other people hack on it.... I'm actually getting emotional over here.

Best of luck with it!

Kurt