Articles like this make me sad. Perl is a mature, well supported language with a thriving community. It is not in maintenance mode, a new version has come out e

Articles like this make me sad. Perl is a mature, well supported language with a thriving community. It is not in maintenance mode, a new version has come out every year for the last 4 or five years, all with new features, many more planned. Plus the perl conference attendance has been up every year for the last few years. http://www.yapcna.org http://www.yapcna.org You say I should use something more modern? Are not all languages based off of methodologies from 1950? And which one of these modern languages do I choose? Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, node.js, coffee, dart, swift, C#, F#, Scala... Probably many more that I missed but my head already spins. If anyone says they know more than 2 of those languages, then they only know them poorly. I get tired of some new language coming out every year, along with a new community of trolls to bash everything and tell me I need to drop everything I already know to learn their new mess. I must say, none of these languages that are in the news impress me. Yet there are many perl modules that do impress me. I enjoy perl and its community. I like that it is not coupled with any huge corporate sponsorship. It is the bazaar in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and that I like.