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?

>>1
It's not an opinion that perl is being replaced by other languages, it is a fact. Try finding a company that is looking for perl devs. Good luck with that. Perl is fine for small projects but it does not work nicely in large scale enterprise environments. Remember kids, readability and maintainability are one in the same, and maintainability is very important to businesses. It is true that you can write beautiful code in perl but it is also true that you can write obfuscated-tier code in perl. At any given time at my company 10 to 15 devs can be working on a single milestone. Try getting 15 devs to write clean perl. Good fucking luck with that.

A lot of companies in silicon valley are doing all they can to increase productivity and decrease the bus factors for legacy code. For instance, the MVC design pattern was great during the early web 2.0 era but they realized it didn't scale well in large team environments so they invented MVVC. Eventually that won't be good enough and they'll move in the direction of naked objects.

OP, you need to stop thinking like a small timer and look at the big picture. Once you work at a large company and unlock level 3 pay like me you'll understand that perl was a mistake. Perl was created by a god fearing liberal who couldn't into bash. What is shell scripting?