> I used to write Perl but I do not take it out of the tool chest anymore and I see very few Perl codebases in the OSS world. It's still haunting under the cov

> I used to write Perl but I do not take it out of the tool chest anymore and I see very few Perl codebases in the OSS world. It's still haunting under the covers of many a proprietary app. It handles all the database processing for a fairly modern program I reverse engineered last year (so we could transfer from it to a new program without having to manually re-enter the 2.3million record database). Heck it was only a couple years ago that macOS used Perl for string processing in libc. [0] (I believe it now forks to sh instead.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920122