My company's publishing system runs on Perl 5 (and some LaTeX macros). That's the core of my business. We used Perl 5 because we know the language well, becau

My company's publishing system runs on Perl 5 (and some LaTeX macros). That's the core of my business. We used Perl 5 because we know the language well, because it has great tools, because it scales from command-line programs to big systems, and because a lot of what we need is serious, fast, and reliable text processing. I have a great deal of confidence that any bugs we find will be easy to resolve, whether it's a problem in our own code or a CPAN component or the Perl 5 core itself. (There have been few bugs; all of them in our own code.)