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I still write Perl to this day on my personal projects and try to contribute as much as I can to CPAN. After more than 10 years it’s still my go to language. I

I still write Perl to this day on my personal projects and try to contribute as much as I can to CPAN. After more than 10 years it’s still my go to language. I think a lot of people are afraid of learning Perl just because they heard is hard to write or they came across some horrible code, I believe PHP suffered from this not so long ago. If you want a taste of using a really good web framework have a look at Mojolicious, Moose and friends introduce some really nice concepts around objects, there are many other interesting packages. The consistent documentation and testing around most of the packages on CPAN makes working with modules a breeze. Other languages like Python or Node.JS could learn a lot from the Perl community even to this day. The are just a few rules for writing code in Perl, the expresivity of which a lot of people are complaining it’s actually the Perl’s strong points.

heresie-dabord 7y ago
> I still write Perl to this day I do too. I use it for solving data-analysis problems in a portable and long-stable way. To this day, I can still run Perl that I wrote a long time ago. That's a good investment. I can build data structures in Perl OO that are much more efficient in memory consumption than other interpreted languages. Good code and bad code exist in every language -- anyone who has been in the business for a while knows this. I would just add that the rejection of sigils and braces is also the rejection of other very useful and efficient tooling, such as bash and awk.