Right. I started a perl codebase in 1999, which has slowly evolved and is still one of my main projects to this day. The language has slowly improved, there are decent libraries for everything you might want to do, and I've basically never had to rework or throw away my code because of incompatible changes in the language.
For reference, PHP at the time was at version 4, Python was around 1.6, and noone had heard of Ruby.
For reference, PHP at the time was at version 4, Python was around 1.6, and noone had heard of Ruby.