"For the young readers who may have never heard of it. Perl was a popular programming language about 30 years ago." 1989 would have been the Perl 4 days. Perl

"For the young readers who may have never heard of it. Perl was a popular programming language about 30 years ago." 1989 would have been the Perl 4 days. Perl 5 is twenty-five years old. I don't write much Perl these days, unless for something inconvenient to do in Python. I have nothing against Perl, I just find that the young are much more likely to know Python.