Maybe I&#x27;ll get down voted but I really think perl 4.036 was the best perl.  It was already weird with all the $this and @that but it was such a pleasant language that when I was at Sun I proposed rewriting a pile of &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin in perl.  We had already made stuff slow as crap with unicode support so why not?  Didn&#x27;t happen, Sun pulled the unicode support to get back C level perf.<p>Call me crazy, I love me some perl 4.  That release was brilliant.