So I'm slowly trying to pick up Perl. I'm decent at PHP, and I've noticed alot of the syntax is really similar to it, so I understand alot of the "how" already. What I'm mostly interested in, is what kind of things you can do with it, that make it worth learning.

It doesn't seem like its going to take me too long to pick it up to a half-decent degree, but before I invest alot of time, I'm just curious as to what kind of applications it could allow me to create, and what kind of use it could be in web-development.