Interesting article from Stevey's "Drunken Blog Rants™", about dying and dead languages - from Fortran, Algol, Lisp, C++ to Perl. Posted in 2004, the rants against Perl are very strong. Stevey describes how totally crazy its founder - Lary Wall - was, turning Perl into a cult, and how and why Ruby and Python are superior. It goes as far as "If I hire you and you write one line of code in Perl, I…