Why the scripts dies prematurely although 'perl -c admin.pl' finds it syntactically correct

Syntactical correctness does not protect one from runtime errors.

C:\temp>perl -cle "print 1/<>"
-e syntax OK

C:\temp>perl -le "print 1/<>"
2
0.5

C:\temp>perl -le "print 1/<>"
0
Illegal division by zero at -e line 1, <> line 1.
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