I started a project with Perl as the primary language recently (couple of years ago) because it has remained stable for 20+ years. The lack of breaking changes

I started a project with Perl as the primary language recently (couple of years ago) because it has remained stable for 20+ years. The lack of breaking changes between releases, so common in other languages, was a major selling point for me. Just about every other language I've used, as a high-level coder, would not have stood up to 20 years, but Perl has. I think of it as a feature-complete language, enough to get what I want done without making me worry about migrations when "old" syntax is "deprecated". I still start my Perl scripts with "use 5.010", and it is enough for me to generate HTML from text and do whatever else in between.