> Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax Cleaner syntax than the declarative class mentioned in the article? > Since everything positive about Perl i

> Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax Cleaner syntax than the declarative class mentioned in the article? > Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects, Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day. To my mind though the benefit is in mutability of the language. Yes, there are other languages in this category (rebol, red, lisp), Perl is somewhere between these and Python and Ruby. If I were to order them from most mutable to least, I would go lisp, rebol, red, perl, (python and ruby). This is a powerful thing and of course with great power comes the possibility of misuse.