> 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 tha

> 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.