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I don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.

I strongly disagree that CPAN is the best package manager. The CPAN repository might be one of the largest for a specific language, but the cpan comnand line is aegul, you can't even remove a package automatically with it. Don't get me wrong, because I love Perl, it was my main language for 10+ years, but the default package manger us awful.

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Perl is basically lisp for Pirates who got banished using Lisp in production environments.

No other language has done more to carry the Lisp legacy forward than Perl.

I love perl. I also love Haskell and Python, but Perl was my first love.