Python is less than 5 years younger than Perl. JS is less than 10 years younger. Your examples are both three decades old.

More importantly: why does reading about someone using Perl cause you to “balk”? That’s the issue my comment was lamenting, this attitude that everyone should be using something “acceptable”.

Before Perl, it was mostly unacceptable to use a dynamic language in a business. That sea change alone is revolutionary enough that you’d think there would be some room for a little respect or even curiosity, if nothing else.

But that’s not the case and I think that this kind of ahistorical close mindedness (not specific to Perl, to be clear) is a newer feature of programmer culture. And I think it’s worth lamenting its pervasiveness.