My main problem with the talk is not that you make fun of Perl (every langauge is easy to make fun of), but that you don't seem to have more than a superficial

My main problem with the talk is not that you make fun of Perl (every langauge is easy to make fun of), but that you don't seem to have more than a superficial grasp of Perl. No one that doesn't understand a language should make recommendations as to its use. A couple of examples: * "You need to backslash the variable" (near-quote) - no, you need to pass the array as a reference (which can be done in several ways). * Anyone expecting my $var = scalar @array; to return anything but the number of items in @array hasn't spent much time writing/reading Perl. * "Most, if not all, Perl web apps use CGI.pm" - Not in a world of Mojolicious [1], Dancer [2], Catalyst [3] and others. You should check them out. [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2 https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2 [3] https://metacpan.org/release/Catalyst-Runtime https://metacpan.org/release/Catalyst-Runtime