Is it completely gone, or rather just for you, blocked by sysadmins who know Perl is the magic pixie dust for total control, and want to keep it for themselves?

In Windows-land, compare how PowerShell access may be restricted, and you won't be allowed to run macros in Office, all while your computer is "managed" by a horrible hodge-podge of PowerShell and VBA scripts that make Perl code look like high literature.