• It makes programming fun
• It allows things that should be easy to be done easily
• It makes the impossible possible
• It encourages its users to learn and broaden their horizons
• Lots of 3rd party modules, i.e. CPAN
• It evolves, i.e. Perl 4 -> Perl 5 -> Perl 6
• It lets you impress your significant other

e.t.c, e.t.c