Simple: because I end up creating a number of small scriptlet tools to pass around to other devs on the team, most of which know little about perl, and I want

Simple: because I end up creating a number of small scriptlet tools to pass around to other devs on the team, most of which know little about perl, and I want the scripts to just work, on various crufty computers, rather than fall into a dependency hell. Now, if I were building an application in a defined environment, that would be different. Maybe I should demand a better working environment? I took the money instead. (I make considerably more than the $30/hr quoted elsewhere in the comments) This means I have to cope with a lot of crap, but it does provide for a family...