I hated Perl until I had to do Bash scripting. I must apologize to Perl. I see now where it was coming from [1], and what it saved us from. May god have pity

I hated Perl until I had to do Bash scripting. I must apologize to Perl. I see now where it was coming from [1], and what it saved us from. May god have pity on your soul for inflicting us with this. [1] There are lots of quirks in Perl that I now recognize come from shell scripting. Most obviously, $VAR notation and string quoting.