| > What’s wrong with Perl? Looking at their central axioms, I would guess: 1 - simple software breaks in simple ways: weak, dynamic typing means a lot of problems trivially solved by static and/or strong typing. 2 - simple tools: no idea. I remember cpan being fairly great and perldoc being excellent. 3 - one correct way to do thing versus perl's TMTOWTDI central theme 4 - dependencies are part of the system: lots of CPAN modules, so there's a tendency to import black box modules instead of writing it yourself and retaining ownership. 5 - standards are useful but full of cruft: perl has a much larger standard lib than, say, Go or Python as far as I understand. As to why it would be what's wrong with git: after a cursory glance at the git repo (0), I would guess the problem is that it still contains .perl files? [0]: https://github.com/git/git/search?l=Perl |