Certainly, it would not be a lovely experience working for an IT company having such lack of respect for Perl, but I guess wise monks probably know how to tolerate those roaming in the dark. In this context, it is good to remember Larry Wall's speech "Programming is hard let's go scripting" http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html :

"Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady..."