One of the more common questions we get is "Why did you write WebGUI in Perl?" I've covered this before, but I just read another interesting article on the same subject and I couldn't agree more.

This sums it up nicely:

The important thing about Perl is that we have a culture of writing good libraries. No Perl programmer would write a few lines of code, post it to a blog, and call it a "library". Everyone feels obligated to create a CPAN distribution, with documentation (sometimes a bit on the minimal side, but not everyone is a writer), a test suite, a Makefile, etc. I'm not sure why, but this always happens. I think it's because there is a strong convention, and tools that make following the convention easy.