It's frustrating trying to tell people that Perl is a good language because they can't see past the prevailing myths. Very few people don't elide a giggle when I tell them that Perl has the best testing culture and tool-chain out there. There is quite a lot of ignorance out there when it comes to Perl.

I see the CPAN, CPAN Testers, and Perl QA as a gold standard. There's a lot to learn from what they've been able to achieve. It's nice that more programmers are testing their code, but the nice thing about tests is running them! And the best thing about computers is that they can automate it for you which sadly doesn't happen often enough afaict.

Great article and worth a read. I hope it will inspire some people to check out these tools and reconsider Perl.

(Maybe I'm an odd duck, CL is my favorite language but I think Perl is good stuff too)