Happy Birthday! Where I work our most popular site is written in Perl. It keeps running. Our previous intern wrote the processing pipeline that I just ran th

Happy Birthday! Where I work our most popular site is written in Perl. It keeps running. Our previous intern wrote the processing pipeline that I just ran this week in perl that processes 100s of gigs of NCBI data into our database tables. It’s totally the right tool for this job. I find it a beautiful and at times difficult to maintain. CPAN is amazing until it’s not. Though the fact Perl 6 failed means less having to update these backend scripts which is nice).