One obvious condition is when one needs to have a script that does the same thing on multiple operating systems. After all, Windows, *ix, z/OS, VMS, etc all have different scripting languages.
The other condition is, of course, when it's easier to write the script in Perl, which is why I learned Perl, as opposed to trying to write something with significant logic in a BAT file.
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