With Java, if you're not Solaris or Win32, you're second class.
Yes, and with Perl, if you're not in Unix or Linux, you're second class! I don't even like Java (far.too.wordy.for.me), but let's not pretend that Perl doesn't heavily favour certain platforms as well.
Certainly Perl's favoritism isn't such that it won't even compile on Win32 systems, but there's no question that most production Perl scripts are running on Unix and Linux servers, that most documentation has a heavy Unix flavor to it (ie. refer to manpage foo for more info...), and that most CPAN modules only make the promise of having worked on some flavor of Unix.
By the way (and this is no longer specifically related to what chromatic was saying), but we can we waste slightly MORE time comparing language XYZ to Perl?
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