On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 06:57:02AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: > As one of the few remaining people out there who considers perl to be their > favorite language—starting to wonder if it’s just me and Larry Wall at this > point—I’d like to say that perl should stay in base on its merits, all the > perl-based system tools notwithstanding.
You're definitely not alone, though I also enjoy other languages where perl falters (long startup time and complexity of linking with libraries mean I do C and C++ a lot as well)