in reply to regarding intolerance to perl which I observe
Honestly, i'm happy to tell you you're the exception.
You may want to ask what your employer is smoking, and if you can have some. A Perl-illiterate shop is one that you probably don't want to work for -- Not because they dismiss Perl, but because any employer who is ignorant of tools their engineers use, let alone and their purposes, is not a place you want to work for. Let them fail.
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