If Perl is so great at getting shit done, then maybe they should have written Perl 6 in Perl 5, then they might have gotten shit done in less than a decade.
Perl 5 isn't magic fairy dust you can sprinkle over a project with no deadlines, no pressure to produce anything, and no idea what it's eventually going to be. It's a language for people who want to get something done and who know what that something is.
You are probably thinking of Ruby. Wait, Haskell. Hold up, Erlang. Sorry, Node.js.