I used Perl for years, and it's still my go to language for quick text parsing. I stayed away from the bizzare "object oriented" syntax (They're not classes. Th

I used Perl for years, and it's still my go to language for quick text parsing. I stayed away from the bizzare "object oriented" syntax (They're not classes. They're packages, just called with arrow operators instead of like normal functions. But being Perl, you can just use the package and call the functions yourself because TMTOWTDI! (Blech.)) Also Perl's support (or at least Perl 5 (Does 6 even exist? It's like a unicorn like Duke Nukem Forever or Guns-n-Roses Chinese Democracy, only those eventually got released.)) for complex data structures (including multidimensional arrays) requires explicit reference instanteation and dereferencing, like C pointers. It's the biggest pain point.