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?

"Pugs is an implementation of Perl 6, written in Haskell. "

LOL an academic haskell user writes a compiler for a non academic language thought up by a young earth creationist...

"If God is creating the universe sideways like an Author, then the proper place to look for the effects of that is not at the fuzzy edges, but at the heart of the story. And I am personally convinced that Jesus stands at the heart of the story." Larry Wall