"and nobody uses these features anymore" Right. maybe you should come tell that to all of the Perl lovers I have to work with who use them semi frequently. I

"and nobody uses these features anymore" Right. maybe you should come tell that to all of the Perl lovers I have to work with who use them semi frequently. I used to do only C and didn't like using lesser "scripting" languages then I forced myself to learn Perl and Python in parallel. Now I actually like Python and use it a lot. Yet I still loath Perl more than I originally thought I did. People need to face the facts Perl is a disaster of a language and you don't need to know much about Perl to know that.