I didn't say could or couldn't, we're talking about turing equivalent languages of course so that question is meaningless, I said would. You can code anything y

I didn't say could or couldn't, we're talking about turing equivalent languages of course so that question is meaningless, I said would. You can code anything you want in native assembly, or in brainfuck even. But why would you? If you have some impressionable new college grad just getting into the industry how would you convince them to use Perl to build things instead of any other option?