I love Perl because it gets the hell out of my way. If I had a dollar for every language that made this more difficult than it had to be:
my $var = somethingelse() || 'default';
I'd be a friggin millionare. Strongly typed or not (.NET), other languages just suck at something simple like that, or even things like this:
if ($anyobjectorvariableortype) { };
Geez, I love Perl.
