Perl and the human genome are almost perfectly matched; both are almost incomprehensible, with no central design, accreted haphazardly over a long time.
Any supporting evidence to that? If you look into it, you may be surprised.
Here's a hint, Perl doesn't necessarily optimize for the same things other languages optimize for.
The very purpose it has survived three decades is because it solves a great variety of problems, in a very centralized design philosophy which no other tool has addressed till today.