Nothing against you or your long perl scripts (wrote perl for a few years as well), but at my current job there are perl scripts as well, for legacy reasons. Th

Nothing against you or your long perl scripts (wrote perl for a few years as well), but at my current job there are perl scripts as well, for legacy reasons. The scripts where written 20+ years ago to compliment our mail systems and identy management. Today nobody fixes those scripts or replaces them and finding a replacement solution for the underlying systems is nearly impossible, because nobody understands all the perl scripts or dares to touch them. Our dns management can't handle wildcards and sub-sub domains (easily) and every time something like this is needed there is one person who needs to manually add this. Anyway the point I was trying to make is that temporary soluyions often stay because of other reasons than perfection. On the flip side I solve every problem at first through bash or python scripts as well and aolutions tend to be permanent, so we are in the same boat.