I'm in the semiconductor industry and I still write Perl scripts everyday. I learned it back in the mid-90's and it is still great for all the text files that

I'm in the semiconductor industry and I still write Perl scripts everyday. I learned it back in the mid-90's and it is still great for all the text files that I parse. Most of the EDA CAD tools use Tcl and some of the younger people write their scripts in Python but most of the other 40-50 year old engineers still write Perl. I write all of my small home Linux sysadmin scripts in Perl as well. I started to learn Python. I'll probably get around to it sometime but I don't write big systems and 90% of what I do is text processing.