There are relatively few technologies that I adamently refuse to work with in the IT industry.

1. Perl. Fucking hate it. Yes, you *can* write maintainable code with it; and some libraries are surprisingly pleasant to use. Emphasis on "some". That leaves *most* in the category of "out of the question." I simply refuse to work a job where I know ahead of time I'll be using Perl.

@vertigo Perl and PHP both suffer from the issue that a great many people writing code in them are not developers. Which means that there's a LOT of crap out there in those languages. I don't blame you for noping out.