It's extremely easy to pick up poor practices in Perl5 that make the language appear to be unsound even though it can be used extremely elegantly.
You might want to have a look at the libraries that are part of Task::Kensho to get a better feel for how 21st century perl is supposed to be written - at the very least, you might find some ideas to steal for your "sound" language of choice :)
You might want to have a look at the libraries that are part of Task::Kensho to get a better feel for how 21st century perl is supposed to be written - at the very least, you might find some ideas to steal for your "sound" language of choice :)