The story of Perl vs PHP vs Ruby vs Python is interesting. Apparently both PHP and Ruby were created because its authors found Perl too complicated 20+ years ag

The story of Perl vs PHP vs Ruby vs Python is interesting. Apparently both PHP and Ruby were created because its authors found Perl too complicated 20+ years ago(!?). There is definitely a problem with that language (and I find Ruby already complex) that looks extremely cryptic for a non Perl developer. Perl is still used in place of bash scripts and in legacy apps, I just don't see people writing new software with Perl at first place. And System administrators have moved to Python which is now bundled with most distributions. Python just killed Perl. > So, why isn't it the poster child of the scripting languages yet? Why would people move from PHP or Python back to Perl ?