> It also caters to a kind of developer that no longer exists, or at least is in the minority now. The one developer I met who liked Perl was quite the charact

> It also caters to a kind of developer that no longer exists, or at least is in the minority now. The one developer I met who liked Perl was quite the character. He thought in a certain way I envied. Once he rewrote a bash script into Perl just for fun (and to confuse the rest of us). As a gratuitous side effect, the Perl script cut execution of the same task from over 1m in Bash to a matter of seconds. I've resolved to learn it myself now, even if it nudges me more towards a mode of thinking. There's still plenty it can do.