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Perl is one of those languages that was written with a definite purpose in mind. To Wall's credit, if was so facile to use that people chose to use it in a general-purpose way. (Clipper also comes to mind.) Also to Wall's credit, the language managed to stand up under the traffic. Sure, it's obsolescent. Things move on (hopefully). The term, pathological, should probably be reserved for guys, like the one who wrote that line at that link, who floor the accelerator of their tongue without engaging the clutch of their brain. Not many people critique the Model-T, but not many enter it in the Daytona 500, either. Just sayin'.
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