Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
With function signatures and state variables added in 5.010, I consider Perl feature-complete and have not really missed anything from it for as long as I've been writing Perl.<p>What I do appreciate that's missing from many other languages and systems is the extreme committment to backwards compatibility. The knowledge that the next minor release won't break existing scripts is underrated, IMO.<p>Solo project with ~23K LOC of Perl and counting here. Bless you, Larry Wall and Perl maintainers. Keep it up!