Funny. I used Perl professionally for more than half a decade and I always had the same feeling about it. I didn't like how it seemed to always favor the worst way of doing everything. Even today every Perl program has to start without about 20 using statements to get it usable right?
I also disagree about the libraries. Java has many more than Perl, they're just not collected in one place. The Java ones run in huge environments, so while they may not be good for throwing out a cheasy log parsing script in 10 minutes, they will probably scale well beyond what you'll need.
I also disagree about the libraries. Java has many more than Perl, they're just not collected in one place. The Java ones run in huge environments, so while they may not be good for throwing out a cheasy log parsing script in 10 minutes, they will probably scale well beyond what you'll need.