Paul Graham says Perl is good. Stop saying otherwise.

Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. – Paul Graham

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The userbase of the language is very relevant to the quality of its ecosystem.
And there are uniform usebases. Hard to find physical sim and numerics specialists in the JS or Ruby communities. Or webmonkeys in the Fortran userbase.