Perl gets a bad rap

Perl gets a bad rap

Perl is permissive by default, and hence *can* be used
for amateur programming. But it doesn't have to be
used that way.

In my company we have a very large and complex Perl
program in a mission-critical role. Every single
file in its code-base begins with:

use 5.006_000;
use warnings;
use strict;
use Carp;

And we use both object-oriented and functional styles
of programming in a highly-maintainable way.