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Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.

Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).

There is massive evidence that disagrees with you, for example look at Ruby and Perl 6.

Just because a principle applied to something first does it now mean it should now never apply to anything ever.