With its 23 years Perl is already one of the older programming languages, some have even called it a dinosaur and dead. But there has been no great dying in the world of programming languages and the Perl community is actually healthier than ever.
So lets assume Perl was a dinosaur that survived to dominate the food chain. It surely has to be a carnivore judging by its razor-sharp regular expressions, and the 20.000 distributions on CPAN show us that it hunts in packs. After a careful review of Jurassic Park i've come to the conclusion that Perl has to be a Velociraptor, and that's what i'm basing the logo on!