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Perl was the first programming language that I really liked using. Before perl i had programmed in basic and pascal and that wasn't very fun. One of the best a

Perl was the first programming language that I really liked using. Before perl i had programmed in basic and pascal and that wasn't very fun. One of the best aspects of perl is the rock solid runtime, they have really gotten that right. Many of the newer languages like java, python & ruby have VMs that turn belly up after a varying amount of time, but perl just keeps running. I prefer coding in ruby or clojure and I don't really like the object orientation syntax in perl. I'm looking forward to try out perl6.

phaylon 16y ago
You might like Moose (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose.pm). It's built on top of--and is compatible with--plain Perl OO, but provides a whole lot more and has grown a nice, big community. There's more information (presentations, articles and stuff) on http://moose.perl.org/ http://moose.perl.org/