[motogpjimbo]

The mistake was to think Perl was suitable for those types of applications in the first place. Perl was designed for writing small scripts to glue C programs together in a more convenient way than using shell scripts and AWK. A lot of its idiosyncratic design decisions make sense in that context. But when Perl advocates starting pushing it for writing large applications with OOP (with, of course, multiple competing object systems) it was the beginning of the end. Add in the vapourware that was Perl 6 and it was game over.