Especially for the kind of glue scripts we&#x27;re talking about, having to install new language packages across a heterogeneous environment consisting of thousands of boxes is not an easy option.<p>For me the greatest advantage of the Perl5&#x2F;shell integration is that you can use Perl&#x27;s sane data structures, flow control, and code organization features instead of their bash equivalents which have endless pitfalls and can be less portable than basic Perl5.