(damn, forgot to add the main part of my argumentation)
I learnt Perl as well, a few years ago. It was the first scripting language I came across (all I knew before that were C, Turbo Pascal, and a few calculator programming languages), so I immediately fell in love with its string manipulation capabilities. I came across PHP a little while after, and while it had some things which I liked (PHP.net being the main one), I preferred Perl. However, I never got the opportunity to really use it, and after a while the inconsistency of the syntax grew on me, and the language itself kept eluding me. I was never able to grok it, and thus systematically reverted to C every time I had to code something.
Fast forward to last summer. In the span of 1 week, I discovered both Python and Ruby. Fell in love with both and immediately ditched Perl. I never looked back, even though I know Perl is still the fastest scripting language around. I value debugging time more than CPU time these days.
-- Max
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"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"
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