There are plenty of silly reasons to rewrite a piece of code, but language preference has to be one of the worst. Now that I think about it, that's actually a

There are plenty of silly reasons to rewrite a piece of code, but language preference has to be one of the worst. Now that I think about it, that's actually a decent hiring test: Tell the candidate part of their job will be maintaining a small Perl codebase. If they can't deal with that without throwing a fit, I have no interest in working with them. It's a sharp tool, if you're not careful someone might get hurt. But professionals deal with sharp tools all the time, especially when it's the best tool for the job.