Counterpoint - Perl 5 should be (and frankly probably is) required reading for all language designers. You may not like its opinionated point of view, but it gl

Counterpoint - Perl 5 should be (and frankly probably is) required reading for all language designers. You may not like its opinionated point of view, but it glued together the early internet, and occupied a niche so large for so long that calling it a niche is underselling it. Misunderstanding why Perl worked, and what worked about it is a miss in an any serious software engineer’s education.