I'm not a programmer but I did get my start in tech because I installed Mandrake on my computer for fun in the 90s and couldn't figure out how to format the dri

I'm not a programmer but I did get my start in tech because I installed Mandrake on my computer for fun in the 90s and couldn't figure out how to format the drive back so I could reinstall windows. I was accidentally forced to learn linux, and with that things like bash and Perl. I feel like people who customize their bashrcs and tweaking their IP tables and generally are comfortable scripting, are people who gravitate towards Perl, but for developers and data science folks, Python is much more accessible in terms of finding out how to learn that application of the language to those types of problem? When I thought about learning some more data science a few years ago, the vast majority of the tutorials on youtube etc are for people shifting from apps like excel to things like sql and python, I didn't see anything about Perl.