I've found that I can most easily express myself in Perl. I love the feeling that you can never truly exhaust the language. I hated the indentation at gunpoint and overall sterility of Python, and JavaScript is much more disjointed than what anyone imagines Perl to be.
My most recent task using it was writing a backup script that connects to various systems, archives stuff, then copies it to a NAS and then updates a backup log.
Before that I created a demo site for a business idea using Mojolicious (Perl web framework) + DBIx::Class (Perl ORM), and I believe we could have completed the project using them. But due to concerns that we couldn't find or pay Perl programmers when we scale we abandoned it for a rewrite in C#/ASP.NET. A heart vs mind decision, but business needs came first. I'm aware that I'm the only one of my age (early 30s) in my circles who has learnt Perl.
And that previous sentence is why I fear for its future.
My most recent task using it was writing a backup script that connects to various systems, archives stuff, then copies it to a NAS and then updates a backup log.
Before that I created a demo site for a business idea using Mojolicious (Perl web framework) + DBIx::Class (Perl ORM), and I believe we could have completed the project using them. But due to concerns that we couldn't find or pay Perl programmers when we scale we abandoned it for a rewrite in C#/ASP.NET. A heart vs mind decision, but business needs came first. I'm aware that I'm the only one of my age (early 30s) in my circles who has learnt Perl.
And that previous sentence is why I fear for its future.