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Still the best all-purpose language. Trend languages like Ruby and Haskell are flashes in the pan.

Haskell is a trend language? It is only 3 years younger than perl!

"Appeared in 1990; 23 years ago"

Not sure I want to do BlackScholes and MC or solving SAT problems or data structures in perl..

But text processing , hell yeah. perl -pei ftw!

The legacy is perl REs

Why not? PDL exists for numerical computation. Works fine.

You can probably do those with PDL.pm :)