Perl Programmer Master Race Thread

I like Perl but its not that stable for certain for writing irc bots and uploading them in shells

>>59581572
>tfw I've always wanted to learn Perl for the last 5 years, but every time I start, I get distracted with something else
Is there hope for me?

>>59581572
Perl 6 comes out too late.

>>59581572
Perl lost momentum hard. It's got a good preview and library distribution system (cpan), but ruby and python came in stronger in the syntax, feature, and fun categories. Not to mention, the communities behind them were amazing from the beginning. For the longest time, a newbie in Perl was told to read the book, then see if they needed to come back to ask their question. On the other hand, maintainers of major ruby libraries would respond to mailing list posts, not only answering the newbies questions, but helping them with their basics.

>>59581572
Perl is pretty amazing, so universal that it can't even compete with itself.

>>59581709
I was so fuckin hyped about Perl 6, it looked amazing from the design standpoint but then this whole shit with the VM being multi-language and all that nonsense.... Who even uses it? It's not as good in adoption as even lesser languages it competes with, let alone the glorious perl 5.

>>59582970
CPAN's pretty sparse and out of date these days. Any language can step up to being glue-tier. Monks are always around though, the book wasn't necessary.

>>59581572
Unironicaly I use perl for nearly everything. I'm in bioinformatics though