“We all know that when faced with a job to do, we usually tend
to reach for the most familiar tool in our belt. And while perl is
certainly a versatile tool, it isn’t the right tool for every
job.“Perl is the granddaddy of the open-source scripting languages,
with the 1.0 release seeing the light of day way back in 1987. By
comparison, PHP wasn’t released until 1994, and Python didn’t have
its 0.9 release until 1991–only the Unix shells themselves have an
older pedigree. The O’Reilly ‘Camel’ book (Programming perl) has
been a ubiquitous presence on cubicle bookshelves for
decades…”