Personally, I love perl. (And have a visceral anti reaction to the mere look of Python - semantic indentation??! - which I may someday attempt to get past enough to actually learn its virtues.)

I freely admit that the extent to which I love perl for any particular project is inversely proportional to the size of the project, and this has gotten me into trouble when small projects I started in perl have gotten big enough that I no longer love perl for them. But the projects I like best anyway are the ones that are small enough for perl to be a good tool for them, so it tends to work out well.