I wanted to point that out as well. Especially since the OP is familiar with Ruby it's really not a thing to get wound up about. Compared to Python and Ruby,

I wanted to point that out as well. Especially since the OP is familiar with Ruby it's really not a thing to get wound up about. Compared to Python and Ruby, Perl might be getting a little long in the tooth but there's probably stuff that's less of a hassle to in Perl than in any of its decendants. Certainly no red flag.