“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup So, if you ask me, I feel bad about Perl.

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup So, if you ask me, I feel bad about Perl. Nobody seems to talk about that anymore. As someone who writes way too much C++, I will say that there is nothing wrong with the language. There is an abundance of tools to detect and fix problems, and quite a lot of libraries out there for every need. The worst stuff is the building and linking. I remember early on how angry I got when I learned that the order matters, but in reverse order too. On top of that, the language basically has no way to include other libraries on its own. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3363398/g-linking-order-dependency-when-linking-c-code-to-c-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3363398/g-linking-order-... This answer highlights the poor design.