I loved Perl, and I still use it for quick hacks, but there are multiple types of languages for different tasks. One of the tasks is to create a client side ap

I loved Perl, and I still use it for quick hacks, but there are multiple types of languages for different tasks. One of the tasks is to create a client side application as an enterprise solution. Perl is not necessarily best suited for this even if people try to make it so. The next is for web development. I originally started with Perl for this, but PHP came along and made things so much easier. Using Perl before PHP resulted in me knowing PHP the same day I started using it. The general concepts were already there. However, PHP is ugly in the way that the attributes to functions are inconsistent. I still use PHP for web development, but for my next project, I am going to take a look at a higher level language based on Ruby. Ruby looks very easy. While I enjoy complexity in programming, I enjoy productivity during the creation process just as much and products such as Rails look like they are the next step in such development. Lastly, there is the quick hack. I still grab Perl for such solutions, but this is code I would never show anyone else. So, yes, Perl is not dead for me and maybe never will be, but it has had one foot in the grave for a while. Perhaps a web development kit on top of an existing Perl architecture to better separate the HTML, data, and functions would be the cure, but it may be too late for that.