Aye, you know you're starting to reach expert level once you understand the parts of that book which should be ignored. for OP: Perl is a rich and deep langua

Aye, you know you're starting to reach expert level once you understand the parts of that book which should be ignored. for OP: Perl is a rich and deep language. It's as or more comptetent as exactly the same things as ruby and python (although pythons maths, and keeping management happy libraries are better, perl's async and systems wrangling )support is better. It is more permissive than you would want in some circumstances, but in my experiencing running a competent perl team with supportive management is a pleasure.