Recently I had to do some simple flat file parsing and aggregation - for some reason, I picked up Perl for a it and it was as easy and performant as ever. It ju

Recently I had to do some simple flat file parsing and aggregation - for some reason, I picked up Perl for a it and it was as easy and performant as ever. It just felt natural and got the job done in a few lines of code. For all the hate Perl gets, I think for specific tasks like these, it is pretty much only rivalled by Python (and compared to Perl even with strict on/avoiding magic variables etc, Python still feels verbose).