Piers Cawley's A tale of two languages (if you haven't already seen it) speaks to the public perception that Perl remains a desperation language ("Desperate Perl") suited only for gluing things together when nothing else will do.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the real world, there is plenty (possibly a majority IMHO) of maintainable, understandable, well-written, efficient Perl code ("Large Scale Perl" as described by Piers). Worth a read.
(Although I like the name "Desperate Perl" a lot, I think that the names "Scripting Perl" and "Programming Perl" also describe these separate Perl programming styles in a less-emotional fashion (which is occasionally useful.))
This was a great article. Thank you for the pointer.
It also pointed me to a couple of modules I didn't know about.
