Doing it faster in dev time...
Perl has CPAN, its ginormous. If you typically want something its there. Even if you don't like what is there, you can look at it and fix it up or make a new module.
Feck man, Perl is so complete, I have yet to look for something that was there at least in a usable state.
Perl is also very fast. So fast it makes my head spin on fast new hardware. Heck on 6 year old hardware its fast. Even on 500MHz P3 hardware its fast.
Dev time is far out-trumped by production speed anytime. Perl is scalable and very well known by many people. Yes there are more Java and C# junkies out there... but a good Perl chef can whip something together just as fast and work it.