Our company is primarily a Perl shop as well. Hiring is one of the big challenges with a technology stack based on Perl. Especially hiring younger talent who

Our company is primarily a Perl shop as well. Hiring is one of the big challenges with a technology stack based on Perl. Especially hiring younger talent who are more interested in the latest trendy language. When I first started here I asked the same question: "Why?" - and I got essentially the same answer as this article. In the end, as long as the development team is comfortable with it, and it works, and there is still a community of supporters, I suppose it doesn't really matter what it is written in. Hey - at least it isn't PHP!