[singingfish]

Ooh, please don't badmouth perl. Modern perl (e.g. https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition ) is a much more sanely designed environment than modern php is.

[contingencies]

I originally wrote a long comment about how I've written CPAN modules and worked professionally in perl but will never do it again, explaining why technical betamax superiority was irrelevant because perl's users left before it got its act together, but I think in hindsight a simpler summary would be this: grep 'man perldsc' ~/.bash_history|wc -l

[singingfish]

each to their own. I'd like to do more stuff in other languages, but my perl skills are in too high demand, and it's fun.