I am surprised no one has mentioned Perl's miserable signal handling and how working with binary data is clumsy and slow. These two things are what make it diff

I am surprised no one has mentioned Perl's miserable signal handling and how working with binary data is clumsy and slow. These two things are what make it difficult for me to promote Perl as a great general language. But when you need to write a minimal amount to code to chew through a bunch of patterned text or such there is nothing better. It's my still go-to language for quick implementation in a minimal number of lines however.