Perl is dead like COBOL, Visual Basic, and Pascal. There was so much code written in Perl it will be a long time before it truly dies. It was the duct tape of

Perl is dead like COBOL, Visual Basic, and Pascal. There was so much code written in Perl it will be a long time before it truly dies. It was the duct tape of the internet for almost a decade and it’s still probably the best way to efficiently manipulate text. Perl is dead, long live Perl.