14 years later (2011) I ended up visiting/working with a team that had stayed with Perl for some time. That was a fascinating experience. They were using select

14 years later (2011) I ended up visiting/working with a team that had stayed with Perl for some time. That was a fascinating experience. They were using selected "good" parts of Perl, sort of how you can can use the good parts of any competent dynamic programming language and stay productive, in a small team. Afaik they're still going strong.