I'm not chromatic - but I don't think that's the point he's trying to make.
It's not that the the ability to upgrade the interpreter, and several hundred dependencies, and have several tens of thousands of lines of production work easily is good (although it would be tough to argue that it's bad :-)
It's what being able to do that successfully says about the reliability of the perl ecosystem as a whole.
The investment the perl community has made over the last ten years in building the best testing infrastructure of any language (seriously - it's damn excellent), and fostering a community that's values stuff working has paid off in spades.
My experiences match chromatic's in that it just fracking works.
It's not that the the ability to upgrade the interpreter, and several hundred dependencies, and have several tens of thousands of lines of production work easily is good (although it would be tough to argue that it's bad :-)
It's what being able to do that successfully says about the reliability of the perl ecosystem as a whole.
The investment the perl community has made over the last ten years in building the best testing infrastructure of any language (seriously - it's damn excellent), and fostering a community that's values stuff working has paid off in spades.
My experiences match chromatic's in that it just fracking works.