Does he think he has to justify jis language choices to others? Maybe he's worried because someone else might have to read the code someday and they might wond

Does he think he has to justify jis language choices to others? Maybe he's worried because someone else might have to read the code someday and they might wonder why it's Perl. What's needed is a way to store code in an "intermediate" form that can easily be translated into whatever scripting language is desired.