The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.