I do find Perl much easier for manipulating text files, file names, and the sorts of things where bash or awk are too tedious. Then there's a line where someth

I do find Perl much easier for manipulating text files, file names, and the sorts of things where bash or awk are too tedious. Then there's a line where something like Python becomes more attractive. Perl is still a lot faster than Python for many tasks too...the Perl devs seems to spend more time optimizing certain paths. Or perhaps "everything is an object" in Python slows everything down?