The last real job I did with Perl was just over nine years ago. HTML::TreeBuilder saved just hours, probably weeks, of frustrating work during a web platform tr

The last real job I did with Perl was just over nine years ago. HTML::TreeBuilder saved just hours, probably weeks, of frustrating work during a web platform transition. I think that you are right about the nested data structures. I was favorably impressed by the little I saw of Moose, but by the time that came along, all the young seemed to know Python and not Perl. It is not just flat files Perl handles nicely, either. One can do fixed-format munging in Python via the struct module, but I've never found it as handy as Perl's pack/unpack, something I used as far back as the Perl 4 days.