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According to the Modern Perl author, Five things Perl (Still) Gets Right:

* Compatibility

* Quality

* Usability

* Scalability

* Availability

https://pragprog.com/titles/swperl/



Mostly the last one. It's included by default with most linuxes and cygwin. So even if your boss hates you and doesn't let you install anything you can still write scripts.




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