I don't "start a new project" in Perl, but I certainly write a lot of Perl. Mostly one-liners and small scripts, and mostly throwaway. Perl is a very efficient

I don't "start a new project" in Perl, but I certainly write a lot of Perl. Mostly one-liners and small scripts, and mostly throwaway. Perl is a very efficient language for string processing, thanks mostly to its built-in regex engine. Once it grows a little bit more and starts requiring maintenance, I tend to rewrite it in a more maintenable language. Preferably a statically-typed language.