While the article speaks of server costs and such, lest us not forget (from wikipedia but, I believe, attributed to Larry Wall): "The design of Perl can be und

While the article speaks of server costs and such, lest us not forget (from wikipedia but, I believe, attributed to Larry Wall): "The design of Perl can be understood as a response to three broad trends in the computer industry: falling hardware costs, rising labor costs, and improvements in compiler technology. Many earlier computer languages, such as Fortran and C, aimed to make efficient use of expensive computer hardware. In contrast, Perl is designed to make efficient use of expensive computer-programmers." Thus having your people accomplishing things in a more efficient fashion trumps all :-)