I used to be a Perl developer a very long time ago. Writing CGI based web apps was fun, and felt much 'tighter' than today's world of PHP, Ruby, JS, etc. That said though, I don't miss it. :)

Perhaps my favourite memory of the Perl scene was the announcement of Parrot - an April Fools joke that detailed a project to built a bridge between Perl and Python - that then got built. Brilliant.