That might be true if you already don't like writing Perl, but I have many years of experience writing system administration scripts in Perl, and I'd pick it fo

That might be true if you already don't like writing Perl, but I have many years of experience writing system administration scripts in Perl, and I'd pick it for that task over Python any day. I can understand why someone who prefers Python would go that route, but it is definitely not more capable than Perl in that domain.