Without trying to defend the merits of the language: I've watched the videos and those presentations were entertaining and nothing more. It's essentially well

Without trying to defend the merits of the language: I've watched the videos and those presentations were entertaining and nothing more. It's essentially well received trolling. The presenter knows the language so poorly that he conflated some core concepts as well as mixing up the distinction of issues in libraries versus in the language itself. Really. There's lots of things wrong with Perl (all versions) and the same can be said about any other language. Alas these talks are among the worst put together criticisms I've seen so far.