[amerika_blog]

Perl is the ultimate hacker's language.

It was for the 90s and 00s what Microsoft BASIC was to the 1980s.

However, I think it's also coming back. Most of the "inefficiencies" it got tagged with were relics of the server model at the time, like CGI.

Now many are seeing that mastery of a general-purpose language is better than knowledge of specialized methods in a specialized language.

The first is flexible; the latter is not.

[untothebreach]

I also think that things like Modern Perl[1] are helping to move the community away from the "line-noise" style of Perl that it was (in)famous for back in the day.

1: http://modernperlbooks.com