I coded in Perl back when it dominated web development and came to value practical over beautiful in language choices. CPAN made Perl the best choice for many

I coded in Perl back when it dominated web development and came to value practical over beautiful in language choices. CPAN made Perl the best choice for many tasks and the same can be said of NPM for choosing TypeScript now, regardless of the elegance of the language. But I’m also a fan of “language tourism”. Even if one language is more practical, visiting other language cultures can make us better developers overall. I studied Haskell for a bit which gave new ideas for how I use Perl. Culturally, Haskell was using a lot of functional programming concepts and recursion. Those were possible in Perl but not popular. I’m sure there is value in studying Lisp languages for those who end working mostly in TypeScript or Rust