I have the opposite experience to you; I was required to use Perl ages ago and built enough software in it to actually like it. I understand why some people ar

I have the opposite experience to you; I was required to use Perl ages ago and built enough software in it to actually like it. I understand why some people are big Perl lovers. But of all the programming languages that I know (and it's a long list) Perl is the only one that I can't just jump back into. I've forgotten all the esoteric things about it. Unlike most languages, you can't get far in Perl without knowing those esoteric things.