The personal website of Piers Cawley (they/him) — Folk singer, photographer, carer and occasional programmer. So, Giles Bowkett asked me on facebook “Why Perl?”. This is the long answer. I’m a Perl hacker. I have been for around 16 years now. Around 5 years ago, prompted by the Pragmatic Programmer and Adam Turoff, I started looking at Ruby, and Ruby on Rails and sort of fell into maintaining Typo