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And you can tell based off all the other comments on here that you and I are in the minority on liking that it's stable. Even with all its faults.

I, too, have 20 year old perl scripts that still run fine.

I randomly have to bang my head on my desk over bs with python and php incompatibilities between versions.

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I have perl code I wrote in 1992 that still works properly, without changes. The binary executables have changed ISA from MIPS 4 to x86_64, and are compiled fortran (gfortran). There's even a switch I use to be able to read the large endian binary files in gfortran.

My c code from 1996 requires rework. My C++ code from 2014 requires rework (I had to do this with others code as well to use a std capability). Python code rarely survives 3.6 -> 3.12 never mind 2.7 to 3.x. I worked at a company that had (very unwisely) written a massive part of its infrastructure in Py2.7, and was using it a decade past its expiration date.

Perl just works.

No, you are not alone.

Over 25 years of Perl experience. Still writing new stuff daily, both for work and personal use.

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