And those of us who know Perl will continue to use it as syntax and a couple of cute features is hardly enough impetus to throw away years and years of accumula

And those of us who know Perl will continue to use it as syntax and a couple of cute features is hardly enough impetus to throw away years and years of accumulated experience in the language and libraries to learn Python or Ruby or whatever else is the New Perl (tm). And I will continue coding in C and PHP because those are workhorses I'm equally expert at. Newfags always gonna hate oldfags and their rusty (but trusty) old battle-hardened toolboxes.