Perl turns 34 today (actually yesterday because delay in posting). Happy cake day. See original announcement https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1
Perl is sometimes semi-jokingly referred to as a “write-only” language. That is, its syntax is so bizarre that code written in Perl is essentially unreadable by other programmers and thus not editable by other programmers. This sort of code is sometimes referred to as “line noise.”
Perl has large set of operators and a syntax which encourages, or at least permits, the writing of very dense code.
CPAN, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network has over 25,000 open source modules available for download.
Are you still using Perl?
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Python is few years younger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s,[1] and its implementation was started in December 1989
In February 1991, Van Rossum published the code (labeled version 0.9.0) to alt.sources.
Python 2.0 was released on October 16, 2000, with many major new features, including a cycle-detecting garbage collector (in addition to reference counting) for memory management and support for Unicode. However, the most important change was to the development process itself, with a shift to a more transparent and community-backed process.[8]
Python 3.0, a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on December 3, 2008[9] after a long period of testing. Many of its major features have also been backported to the backwards-compatible, though now-unsupported, Python 2.6 and 2.7.