Have used Parl at its height. After studying Java and C courses Per felt like a language I can finally do something useful without boilerplate. And for simple

Have used Parl at its height. After studying Java and C courses Per felt like a language I can finally do something useful without boilerplate. And for simple text processing it was fast enough. But then codebase grew... Switched to Python and never looked back past 15 years. Please let Perl die