It is very inconvenient, ineffective and slow. For example lists are slow as hell. And the syntax is kind of workaround - look at '[' executable for example. It

It is very inconvenient, ineffective and slow. For example lists are slow as hell. And the syntax is kind of workaround - look at '[' executable for example. It definitely has its place in CS history and it made things possible in the past but using it to anything more complex nowadays is a bad, bad, ba idea! I am glad people prefer Python or Ruby for more complicated stuff and Go, Java or compiled langages like Rust, C/C++ for performance-intensive jobs. Perl is fast but the syntax is terribly non-intuitive and I would mark it 'do not use for new designs'.