The problem of course, is that you have to be familiar with it. If you're facing this problem and don't already know Perl, you'll just use whatever your regular

The problem of course, is that you have to be familiar with it. If you're facing this problem and don't already know Perl, you'll just use whatever your regular scripting language of choice already is. Perl may be efficient at some tasks, but having to learn it to take advantage of that efficiency is basically never going to pay off. Or put another way: https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/ and https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/