> It's kind of like people who knock Perl: it's made specifically for text parsing, nothing more, and too many people use it for much more. Perl 1 and 2 I thin

> It's kind of like people who knock Perl: it's made specifically for text parsing, nothing more, and too many people use it for much more. Perl 1 and 2 I think really were specifically for test processing, but it is neither widely regarded as a text processing language by its users, nor would someone learning the language notice that it's particularly geared toward text processing. Perl is hated on because it's a language that turned the dynamic up to eleven and embraces multiple ways of doi g something which causes ecosystem fragmentation, and because perl 5 predates a lot of now-widespread conveniences.