[Mithaldu]

Or they come up with a 5 line solution, using a CPAN module that has had it's battery of unit tests automatically run through on 200+ different os/hardware/perl combinations, which also comes with its own little test suite and works out of the box; while everyone else runs their stuff and discovers they still need to catch a dozen weird edge cases.

Until other languages reach this kind of solidity and thoroughness in testing CPAN will stay at the top of the bunch.