I still use Perl all the time for random tasks. It is exceedingly fast and simple to create very powerful programs using stable libraries, and all the legacy co

I still use Perl all the time for random tasks. It is exceedingly fast and simple to create very powerful programs using stable libraries, and all the legacy code still works. It's the most handy general purpose scripting language, period. And you can run it anywhere. I don't use it for "portable" things, which is funny because it's more portable than any language I can think of. I write things in Python if anyone other than me has to support it or run it, and Bash if it's just going to be embedded in a system where I don't want to make Perl a dependency. But to do something powerful and fast just for myself? It's Perl, baby.