Perl - worth to pick?
My boss has decided to use perl as our (preferably) single, main development language.
For me, it just doesn't seem right. I'm asking on your opinion about it, as my feelings might be influenced by today's trends and the horrible syntax (coming from c/java background).

For me, specifically, after java, I was shocked about the lack of a good IDE (like eclipse), the syntax and the contexts, implementation of threading, etc... You know what I'm talking about.

What do you think? Am I just getting older, or indeed, Perl is probably not the right choice nowadays as a general-purtpose language for new developments?
Perl - worth to pick?
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My boss has decided to use perl as our (preferably) single, main development language.
For me, it just doesn't seem right. I'm asking on your opinion about it, as my feelings might be influenced by today's trends and the horrible syntax (coming from c/java background).

For me, specifically, after java, I was shocked about the lack of a good IDE (like eclipse), the syntax and the contexts, implementation of threading, etc... You know what I'm talking about.

What do you think? Am I just getting older, or indeed, Perl is probably not the right choice nowadays as a general-purtpose language for new developments?