Thank you, Perl. I can still run my perl5 scripts from 1995. Perl is one of the very few software systems that take backwards compatibility seriously. That is e

Thank you, Perl. I can still run my perl5 scripts from 1995. Perl is one of the very few software systems that take backwards compatibility seriously. That is especially visible when compared to some recent languages that are in fashion today, where if you so much as sneeze after several months, all of your software and dependencies are suddenly broken, and you need to rewrite your software, just because somebody thinks that This is How it Should Be Done. The only other comparable language is Clojure, where backwards compatibility is treated as a priority, and I can still run my programs from 12 years ago without a hitch. This is important, and it is something that you learn to appreciate as you get older. When I was 25 I also didn't care.