I think that the stigma of 'perl is only for small things' is a result of the way in which most most people write their perl code. I'm thinking here of writing huge apps in one script, not using (self written) modules, reinventing the wheel, not coding consistently, etc. IMHO, Perl scales wonderfully to huge projects. If you actually think about the design of the project beforehand and modularize just about everything. Another point is that you can get a lot further in perl without understanding the perl internals than you can in, say, C. Just my 2c.