Securing Debian Manual: 3.7 Install the minimum amount of software required

[Stayvoid <stayvoid@gmail.com>]

Hello.

"The presence, for example, of development utilities (a C compiler) or
interpreted languages (such as perl - but see below -, python, tcl...)
may help an attacker compromise the system…"
"So, without Perl and, unless you remake these utilities in shell
script, you will probably not be able to manage any packages (so you
will not be able to upgrade the system, which is not a Good Thing)."
I'm confused. Should I remove it?

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html