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I use Perl over Bash because I'm more familiar with the C-like, PHP-like syntax with parentheses, curly braces, if/else, while, and sigils. I'm also a fan of both strict and taint, which have saved me countless hours.

I use Perl over Python because of the culture/tradition of not introducing breaking changes into the language/runtime, which has also saved me countless hours. I'm also a fan of arbitrary whitespace for formatting.

Perl is ubiquitous in the *nix world. Combined with its stability and my avoidance of third-party libraries, I can run my scripts basically anywhere without struggling with dependencies, version mismatches, etc.