A better solution for Perl: but you need to buy a miniature motherboard on a chip, run an Operating System on it, then run Perl. :-) It won't be long before you have entirely solid state computers on a few stacked chips encapsulated in epoxy. Connect thru a fiberoptic cable/ethernet , and you have a miniature computer. It could output to a usb port or an IP address.
Now that is awsome......now we just need cheap usb breadboards that we can hook actuators/sensors to. Sort of like the Basic Chip....version 2000...:-)