I can see where you come from, but try to run some obscure nontrivial Perl package of the 90s and see how far it goes. I had the displeasure to exhume legacy Pe

I can see where you come from, but try to run some obscure nontrivial Perl package of the 90s and see how far it goes. I had the displeasure to exhume legacy Perl programs three times in the last two decades. It always ended with a total rewrite in another language. In contrast, awk is such a nice and minimalist language with multiple implementations available.