So many things are already written in Perl, so moving to another language just for popularity’s sake unnecessarily introduces another standard in an environment

So many things are already written in Perl, so moving to another language just for popularity’s sake unnecessarily introduces another standard in an environment. There might be reasons a new language is needed, but sticking to Perl and Bash, if that’s mostly what your environment has, makes sense in many cases. The popularity argument only makes sense in regards to hiring new people, which is a fair point.