"Perl still has its uses. For tiny projects (100 lines or fewer) that involve a lot of text pattern matching, I am still more likely to tinker up a Perl-regexp-

"Perl still has its uses. For tiny projects (100 lines or fewer) that involve a lot of text pattern matching, I am still more likely to tinker up a Perl-regexp-based solution than to reach for Python." I liked this comment because it sounds a bit like he was saying Perl was long in the tooth. 10 years later, Perl still has its uses, and it's still used commercially. It's also possible to enjoy languages other than your One True Favourite-Ever Language. I'm aware this might sound insane, but I'm going to leave this Python script I'm writing to fix some bugs in a Ruby gem I'm working on, and then go back to writing a daemon in Node JavaScript. Because they all have their uses and you don't need to troll/defend your favourite at every opportunity.