But regular expressions, one of the culprits of Perl unreadability, have not faded, and are very much alive in all languages, and usually in ways that make them

But regular expressions, one of the culprits of Perl unreadability, have not faded, and are very much alive in all languages, and usually in ways that make them even less readable than in Perl (e.g. requiring backslashes to be escaped, or without support for verbose formatting). Sometimes we all just put up with the unreadable mess when it solves the problem at hand quickly.