titusd

I loved and openly defended Perl for years. Contrary to popular belief, I still believe that you can write large, maintainable systems in Perl. It's just that I think that you could write those same systems better in other languages.

I no longer recommend Perl as a first language to learn: I think Ruby and Python are better choices.

I no longer recommend Perl to experienced programmers: Clojure and Erlang have more to offer to the Java or C++ expert.

Perl was very important and useful for a while, but at it's root, it's a kludgy, annoying language, full of bad design choices.

I believe Perl has had it's day.