[ajsnigrutin]

Perl is great for working with text based data and stuff that is a pain to do in bash.

It is also great at stability (ie. code written 20+ years ago, still works on modern systems).

So for me, something that I'll write, put in some cron somewhere and forget, is all written in perl... at the same time, my colleagues are rewriting old python2 stuff, because modern distros come with python3 only. Some of them had to fix stuff even for 2.6->2.7 python versions.