Happened to me, had to choose a language to write a web crawler in ended up with Python (this was 5 or 6 years ago.)<p>We got a contractor in who was a Perl guru, he wrote one of the popular web frameworks but even he couldn&#x27;t put forwards a good case for using it over PHP.<p>And now in the company my brother works for (a cloud hosting provider) they are currently switching from Perl to Python.