1 man using perl can outpace 8 on C++. Who would&#x27;ve thought? &#x2F;sarcasm. But seriously, I think this is one of the classic instances of what is now quite common knowledge about dynamic scripting languages: They let you get things done MUCH faster. I think the tools group learned the wrong lesson from this, but OTOH, who would want to start developing all of their new software in perl? And given that python hadn&#x27;t caught on yet, there really wasn&#x27;t much else out there in the field.