When these threads come up, it’s staggering to see how much mindshare Perl has lost. This particular case of code that grows too klunky for the Unix shell was a

When these threads come up, it’s staggering to see how much mindshare Perl has lost. This particular case of code that grows too klunky for the Unix shell was a key motivator for the language’s invention and ought to be THE final outpost, but people barely seem aware of the option.