It's also slower, which is quite a pity because I really like the syntax compared to Python. It has proper end statements for example.
We still use Perl5 heavily for web and backend services development (Mojolicious). If you keep your code tidy it's maintainable, so it all boils down to how you write your code. Needless to say, my tiny scripts are written in Perl. I simetimes even use it from command line to calculate dates in the future or do something that is too complicated with sed and awk.
We still use Perl5 heavily for web and backend services development (Mojolicious). If you keep your code tidy it's maintainable, so it all boils down to how you write your code. Needless to say, my tiny scripts are written in Perl. I simetimes even use it from command line to calculate dates in the future or do something that is too complicated with sed and awk.