"...With all this depressing talk you might be discouraged from trying Perl. Don’t be. I could now sit here and enumerate a great list of reasons for you to use Perl today, but, if I did, as though I was the holder of a religious-like truth, it might cause too much controversy. And I don’t want that. Therefore, here are the reasons why I personally use Perl. I don’t mean in any way that they are absolute values, I just hope they will fire up enough curiosity in you for you to give the language a try. [...] Powerful, flexible, programmer-friendly... are you sure you don’t want to give it a try?"