perl5 is not abandoned, it's just currently not fashionable. There's nothing I can't do server-side in perl that I can't do in any of the other important dynami

perl5 is not abandoned, it's just currently not fashionable. There's nothing I can't do server-side in perl that I can't do in any of the other important dynamic languages. Over the last couple of weeks I've been training people who've been stuck in svn for far too long to use git. My go to three sentences to help orient them has been "git is like perl. It's extremely useful and there's nothing you can't do with it. The problem is there's lots of different ways of achieving the same thing." I'm not sure your argument that 'top down decisions are good' is why is valid. And the whole 'whitespace is syntactically meaningful' thing in python gives me the heebeejeebies. On the other hand when I decide I need to learn more maths, python and sympy is the tool I reach for.