one can use regex expression very efficiently

it's an open-source

it also holds a lot of libraries and hence one can get at ease especially when old companies have scripts in Perl

it's similar to the Unix style so people moving from Unix type programming finds easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its not for general purposes like python

no data related projects can be done efficiently

rather than this one can with Perl programming but stability needs to be upgraded after every version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.