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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modifying a single regex, is that all you think it takes - please download the wikipedia mediawiki php sources and modify one regex to change the behavior of mediawiki - you've just introduced 123 new bugs because you don't know what side effects that regex has if you slightly modify just one character in the regex. Blow up your house by changing * to A.. booM BooM bOOm... char by char parser doesn't blow up as easily because you have to know what you are doing. Regex allows idiot monkey programmers access to computers - ever since these idiot monkeys got a hold of php and perl, they created junk like mediawiki without proper parsers that were *well thought out*