I was with you up until the last paragraph. I don't know how typical my experience was, but when I was in college (class of 2016) we also had to write a lot of

I was with you up until the last paragraph. I don't know how typical my experience was, but when I was in college (class of 2016) we also had to write a lot of C, and a smattering of other languages (e.g. one early class in OCaml, AI/ML classes in Python, etc.). I think you may be on to something with the idea that Perl is less known now due to not being taught in college due to other languages being focused, but I think you conclusion that Java is the only thing people will find familiar might be a bit too strong.