I get the feeling that Perl qualifies as "unfashionable". To be fair, I haven't stepped up to Perl 6 just yet, so I arrive at that conclusion from a Perl 5 pers

I get the feeling that Perl qualifies as "unfashionable". To be fair, I haven't stepped up to Perl 6 just yet, so I arrive at that conclusion from a Perl 5 perspective. Why do I still use it? That's broken into two parts. I started using it because it was the language of choice for web apps circa 1999. I kept using it until recent years because of a large code base I was maintaining. I continue to use it today because Perl Dancer 2 is a kick-ass framework. It has an extendable DSL, and it really makes short work out of writing web apps.