You can think of Perl as a super AWK. That's really the genesis of it's design philosophy, hence all the special automatic variables and modes to implement proc

You can think of Perl as a super AWK. That's really the genesis of it's design philosophy, hence all the special automatic variables and modes to implement processing loops on the command line. From a scripting standpoint, the language is designed to be used with much less ceremony than Python and its ilk.