[brightball]

I worked on a site conversion of a 14 year old Perl site about a decade ago. The creator had build a database out of the file system leveraging Perl's parsing capabilities. Still one of the fastest sites I've ever touched in my career but the code was really hard to follow.

I find that the ideal place for Perl (for me) is smaller one-offs. When used for a huge site it can get really messy.

[petre]

Not if you use Mojolicious and are the tidy type.

[brightball]

This particular project was a mess of global variables being modified in functions called across dozens of files.