Perl can have all the community support, packages, and testing that it wants, but I dislike programming in it and find it difficult to code in. This is not because I have only ever done Ruby or Javascript, I would consider my strongest languages to be Objective-C and Java, I have used C quite a lot, I know what I am doing with programming languages. I just dislike Perl.
Did you know there is a Perl package that will catch references to undefined symbols and fuzzy match them to the closest it can find in the current scope. To me, that seems to be the marker for the general quality of the code.
Ruby ~40 Python ~40 Java ~50 Perl ~1800
Perl can have all the community support, packages, and testing that it wants, but I dislike programming in it and find it difficult to code in. This is not because I have only ever done Ruby or Javascript, I would consider my strongest languages to be Objective-C and Java, I have used C quite a lot, I know what I am doing with programming languages. I just dislike Perl.
Did you know there is a Perl package that will catch references to undefined symbols and fuzzy match them to the closest it can find in the current scope. To me, that seems to be the marker for the general quality of the code.