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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Posting the wikimedia source code, would blow up this website with bloatware regex that exploded your brain into &*#@! Go download the wikimedia source, and ask yourself, could they have engineered this better - could they have programmed this better, by using a maintainable parser.. case, switch, case, switch, case, switch, increment++ case, switch Call Procedure, analyze substring, increment, get_next_char(),