Well, Perl kinda started where SED and AWK finished, and it does incorporate a lot of syntax from them, for better or worse. It makes it easy for quick & power

Well, Perl kinda started where SED and AWK finished, and it does incorporate a lot of syntax from them, for better or worse. It makes it easy for quick & powerful one-liners but sadly people then put the one-liners into actual programs instead of writing it in nicer way...