For everyone's sake, let's hope not! I do hope that sooner rather than later, all of these scripts will go away. They are the result of a higher up in the IT department (who ended up getting fired) saying "no problem, I'll just write a perl script to handle that" when the dev team gave time estimates the business partner didn't like (you know, because we wanted to do QA and other silly stuff).

After several hundred scripts written with no QA and patched repeatedly in the wild as issues were encountered, you can imagine the mess. Especially after that guy was let go. The business partner did wise up, especially after these script allowed some very important financial transactions to get sent twice (hundred of thousands of dollars) and seeing what our re-write of those scripts looked like. When the business users speak of "perl" with distaste, you know an impression has been made. The sad thing is, it isn't the tool (I don't really know, but I assume perl is a pretty good tool used appropriately), but they way it was used.

What person thinks going into a completely windows environment with only windows system admins and decides to write perl scripts hosted on Linux box, I don't know. I guess when all you have is a hammer . . .