Perl definitely had its place in the world of scripting particularly sysadmin automation tasks as well as early days of CGI scripting. Since then do, other lang

Perl definitely had its place in the world of scripting particularly sysadmin automation tasks as well as early days of CGI scripting. Since then do, other languages (with easier syntax - IMHO) have taken the lead. I guess like everything in life, nothing is permanent and what is hot tech. today will be a legacy product Tomorrow. Perl's story reminds of yet another language -- REXX. It's powerful as a scripting/text parsing language but due to it's Mainframe label, 99% of programmers Today haven't worked with it.