[kiyoto]

You clearly work in the web industry =)

perl does one thing hundred times better than (server-side) JavaScript: when you need to get data out of a server that you have no sudo privilege because your boss asked you to get stats on your trades ASAP.

This happens shockingly frequently in finance, and perl (and actually, awk) was the only scripting language that I could safely assume was installed.

[erikb]

Being sure that this one tool is available all the time is actually a key argument I have to say. One of the reasons I started to learn vim.