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?

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Go ahead, try writing a parser for wikipedia in perl 6 and compare it to a parser written using a Case/Switch parser that increments the character one at a time. The case/switch C based parser will be much easier to maintain than perl 6 hodgepodge. But if you've never written a real parser in your life and you think that "PERL is parsing", you'll never see the light. It's hard to unbrainwash a perl programmer since they think about parsing in that sort of way, as they've never educated themselves that perl itself was just written in C, not perl. Since perl is so good for parsing, you'd think perl would be written in perl, similar to how nimrod is written in nimrod, Golang is written in Golang, ... it's called eating your own dogfood.