[aiurtourist]

I love Perl. I wrote it professionally for 10 years. I have great friends who still do. The community is full of smart, fantastic people.

Five years ago, however, I learned Python for a job and never looked back. In terms of programming languages they're practically the same thing. But Python is easier to read, easier to write, and easier to hire for. And stuff like this (dereferencing, "array context," worrying about how to create my objects) makes me sigh.

Perl, I love you, but I'm not looking back.

(apologies for the language flame war bait)

[berntb]

Assuming you're not a troll, you have bad timing who left just before Moose and dependable grammar extensions. I've been doing some Python lately and regularly scream when I lack usable anonymous funs (>1 instruction) or can't find a lib I know exist on CPAN, etc.

ymmv.

[aiurtourist]

Not a troll, real human, but I guess I was unconsciously trolling. Oh well.