I agree with the author on just about all the advantages of Perl. However, I think that python actually now shares the same advantages since almost everybody is using Python 3.x. Perl's greatest strength was its regex library and string handling and Python has stolen everything it could from Perl's regex language and most of its string handling so the advantages of Perl are much diminished now. Python is showing signs of being an absorbing language - like English - any great words that are developed in another language, are stolen by English pretty soon afterwards ..