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When I first came across Perl sometime around 2000, I found myself doing everything in it. A few years later, I discovered Python, and I haven't really touched Perl since.
Python's a very clean, and is completely object orientated. Perl's pretty messy, and the object system is something of a hack. Perl's still pretty good at short scripts, but it's a language that's less relevant these days.
Ruby is a language that could be arguably be described as Perl's spiritual successor. It's very OO, has the in-built regexs Perl has, and boasts some pretty advanced features, including continuations and anonymous methods.
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