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If someone is being paid to modernize a perl app, they almost certainly are intended to rewrite it in another language entirely.

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No, that’s just bullshit. It’s very easy to write Modern Perl, and most companies with large Perl codebases break their codebases into service based architectures and then rewrite them bit by bit.

This was my thought, as well.

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