Comment by bloblaw

> If you don’t (need to) care about Unicode, maybe

Perl has had strong unicode support since Perl v5.12 (~2010).

references: 1. http://xahlee.info/perl/perl_unicode.html 2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/12458

> If you think pythons package management is not disastrous enough, maybe.

Huh? I've used PAR::Packer with great success since 2005.

> If you do not (need to) consider Windows, maybe.

Microsoft used to ship Perl scripts to work with COM and WMI with their NT4 and Windows 2000 resource kits. Perl works *extremely* well with Windows.

I mean, there are lots of reasons to choose Python over Perl, but IMHO, these are not those reasons.

I use Perl as a better-bash. If I was writing a modern website, a large application, or any ML related work...I'd choose Python. But for complex system administration, I'm picking Perl. YMMV