Always ignored perl for default *nix toolbox (bash + awk + sed) utilities that were standard and in place 'by default'. These days unless you have python 2 and

Always ignored perl for default *nix toolbox (bash + awk + sed) utilities that were standard and in place 'by default'. These days unless you have python 2 and 3 + 20 python libraries per version on a system you can't count on a developer being productive. Recently I've seen guys drive ssh remote command execution in java - we are falling into fashionable senility.