[Kostarrr]

Friends dont let friends write perl. Source: The legendary "Perl Jam" talk from the chaos communication congress.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQcWra6sbU * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPvORV2Amic

Also I find the "ubiquity" argument very side loped. What I could agree with is "small/self-contained install" (e.g. small single executable available for many platforms). But not sure how well perl fares there.