If Perl is so great at getting shit done, then maybe they should have written Perl 6 in Perl 5, then they might have gotten shit done in less than a decade.
Perl 5 isn't magic fairy dust you can sprinkle over a project with no deadlines, no pressure to produce anything, and no idea what it's eventually going to be. It's a language for people who want to get something done and who know what that something is.
You are probably thinking of Ruby. Wait, Haskell. Hold up, Erlang. Sorry, Node.js.
I use Perl to "get shit done" (GSD) it's not sexy, it's not my main job, hell, it's barely reusable. But using Perl has been the difference between failure/late delivery and success/early delivery/under-budget more times than I can even remember.
As late as the end of last year I has hacking Perl 5 code as a side project to GSD and took a project that went from not-existing because the scope was unfeasible for the next 3 calendar years to existing and producing measurable results 3 weeks later. That work got me a promotion and then a new better job making more money (and not doing Perl work) and overall joy and happiness because I was the guy that GSD (and Perl made that happen).