There are various benefits that Perl CATERS to its developers and stays ahead of other programming languages. The situations are: 

• When a developer needs faster execution through their application, Perl will provide you solution for that DEMAND.  
• Perl is comfortable with other web scripting languages like HTML and CSS. 
• Perl also caters to a lot of flexibilities when developing web-based applications. 
• Applications that REQUIRE frequent use of regular expressions and text manipulation can render Perl for their development purpose. 

APART from all these situations, Perl is free, plus it has a repository of pre-written codes with community support called CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules. Some of these are: 

• DBI 
• JSON 
• LWP::UserAgent 
• DateTime 
• XML::Simple 
• Text::CSV 
• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 
• DBD::mysql 
• XML::Parser 
• WWW::Mechanize 
• Excel::Writer::XLSX 
• Net::SSH::Perl 
• Net::SMTP 
• Net::Telnet 
• DBD::Oracle 
• Spreadsheet::ParseExcel 
• IO::Socket::SSL 
• HTTP::Response 
• DBIx::Class::ResultSet 
• Log::Log4perl