Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't want to mean that Perl is a bad language at all. I was trying to explain my experience with my fellow coworkers, who happened to love perl.
Actually, for the last 3 years I've been using it at work, including first-class functions (and Catalyst ;)), and I've it enjoyed quite a lot. I've some minor issues with it's syntax (for my taste too much sigils, but I understand why they are there).
What I meant to be masochistic is trying to use eval with strings to emulate macros, and even trying to defend it.
On the other side, the CPAN is amazing and I find difficult to live without it!
BTW, I hope you'll publish here the Lisp to Perl compiler! Lisp + CPAN sound really awesome and productive!
It's pretty useless right now though :) I started rewriting the reader, but didn't like any of the parsing modules on CPAN... so it's sitting at that stage right now. When I get some tuits, I'll probably just port over SBCL's reader, or perhaps emacs'.
Actually, for the last 3 years I've been using it at work, including first-class functions (and Catalyst ;)), and I've it enjoyed quite a lot. I've some minor issues with it's syntax (for my taste too much sigils, but I understand why they are there).
What I meant to be masochistic is trying to use eval with strings to emulate macros, and even trying to defend it.
On the other side, the CPAN is amazing and I find difficult to live without it!
BTW, I hope you'll publish here the Lisp to Perl compiler! Lisp + CPAN sound really awesome and productive!