[tempest_]

Perl was python before python was python, and booking.com is old.

[mrich]

On the server it was the predecessor to Node.js, back when the alternative was a C program :)

[nebula8804]

I thought the Netherlands was weird in that there is a large group of Perl programmers who never decided to move on. It is its own ecosystem

Its kind of like how Japan stayed on flip phones for forever and even bolted on smartphone features to their flip phones.