Perl was my first programming language, however ill-advised, it was what my computational linguistics professors used in 2012. It was a trial-by-fire implement

Perl was my first programming language, however ill-advised, it was what my computational linguistics professors used in 2012. It was a trial-by-fire implementing new modules in a codebase written by a seasoned Perl programmer who didn't shy away from its esoteric features. Having mostly moved to Python, I can't say I miss the whackiness of the language.