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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try adding new features to your regex driven parser... oops ... go and download the wikipedia source code for wikimedia php, try modifying the source to add a new feature. Which regex do you modify, and does that introduce a 100 new bugs into the program. Try it. If you've never looked at the wikimedia source code, it's time. Too clever for your own good comes to mind - people who think up these regexes are brilliant fools, something like an aspergers child who invents brainf&ck only to realize that brainf*ck doesn't actually help society, even though it took great skillz to think up such a joke.