Yes. (What answer did you expect from a perl community site? ;-)

It may be not as simple as PHP (at least for your very first CGI script), not as object oriented as Java and not as ... $other_good_property ... as .NET, but it gets your job done. Quickly and intuitively.

The other day I worked at a big company, and one of my coworkers asked if I could write him some program - basically merging two fixed-width text tables, wrote me a short specification, gave me a a few example files, and then told me "sorry that I'm keeping you busy for the next week.". Forty minutes later I send him the script by email, and he dropped his jaw in amazement. (He had been a C programmer not so long ago, involved in writing low level drivers.) He couldn't believe that one could be so productive.