Perl Debugged

1.2. Why Perl?

Chances are, if you use Perl you know why you picked it and don't need further proselytizing. But additional ammunition never hurts—if you have to defend Perl up your management chain, well, Perl doesn't have a megamultinational conglomerate to pour zillions of dollars into a marketing campaign^[2]— so it falls to users like us to sing its praises in practical ways.

^[2] If you think we have a specific example in mind, you're probably right.

Whenever we have a problem we need to solve with a program, the solution first shows up in our mind, in thought pictures and words, which most development methodologies then have us enunciate as an English (or whatever our native language is) description of an algorithm before ever translating ...