Perl!

So, I've always heard Perl is a bad language, write only etc. I've recently learned it, and now I can write some serious Perl. And you know what? I like it. It's not elegant as Haskell or clean as Python, but if you know it well you can make it elegant and clean.

Actually, I like it more than FIOC. And Python used to be my preferred language! In a sense it's like a reverse Randal (see https://xkcd.com/353/ alt text).

So, some people think Perl is in decline, being replaced by more modern languages. [citation needed].

What do you think of this? Is there any Perl lover here who can tell me it's not gone? I want Perl among us for years to come.

Can we has it?

the only thing good about perl, is you can still do procedural programming (subs) without requiring complex OOP messes. But that's as good as perl gets, everything else about it encourages poor code. In perl, people don't learn how to parse, they learn how to use regexes. Regex does not equal parsing. Every person should educate themselves on how to char by char parse with C language or something similar. PHP has similar problems - everyone uses regexes when more elegant parsers would solve the problem. If the wikipedia source code was rewritten properly, it would have a parser, instead of unmaintainable regex after regex.