I've done a lot of work on older systems that don't include Python or anything trendy, so Perl was my go-to language for a long time, so that I could avoid a me

I've done a lot of work on older systems that don't include Python or anything trendy, so Perl was my go-to language for a long time, so that I could avoid a mess of different shell languages and such. I always took pride in writing readable Perl that someone didn't have to be an expert in order to follow. It's a very obedient language, in the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot kind of way. I still use it as a convenient way to access PCRE in short scripts, but the longer it is, the more likely I am to switch to Python.