one of the very essence of *NIX tools models. Treat everything as a file and deal with problems.

I have it installed on Windows, but for lack of a better term, I wanted to use "typically included" tools, available in most commercial and free *NIX implementations. Perl by default is a Linux mainstay, most BSD considers it an Add-on. Commercial *NIX doesn't always support Perl, but makes it available under "provided as-is" terms.

It wasn't a slam against Perl, Python or any of the other interpreted languages, most being available on Windows. It was a "okay here is a base system" do your thing, and Windows by default failed miserably.