As someone who maintained Radiator (a RADIUS server) at a few places, I agree. That piece of software alone was enough justification for Perl to be used in crit

As someone who maintained Radiator (a RADIUS server) at a few places, I agree. That piece of software alone was enough justification for Perl to be used in critical scenarios, and as far as I know some of those instances are still running, decades after I left (obviously not the same machines or versions).