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?

indeed it was perl 5 that was written in C, if perl 6 can bootstrap itself this is somewhat good news that it can eat its own dogfood... But at the same time, this doesn't guarantee in any way that the perl 6 written in perl 6 is maintainable 5 years down the road when some Evangelical christian programmer goes to heaven after getting hit by truck, and can no longer offer support services for his perl6 compiler.