We use perl to power some web services that have been running a long time. It’s a work horse. I’m ok with it but it is hard to read, I think because there are

We use perl to power some web services that have been running a long time. It’s a work horse. I’m ok with it but it is hard to read, I think because there are so many ways to do everything. it takes a bit to get used to some of the syntax ($@~). I was told my perl was very c like during a review. It’s great for text manipulation though. I just remember Rasmus (of php) talking about how he always expected any language to take over php but perl made some design decisions that made it unpalatable to hosting providers. It’s still my go to for processing large text files.