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I'm younger than a lot of folks on HN, but I've never touched Perl for anything more than some copy-pasted shell one-liners from stack overflow. Granted, web is

I'm younger than a lot of folks on HN, but I've never touched Perl for anything more than some copy-pasted shell one-liners from stack overflow. Granted, web isn't what I get paid to do, but I still know Ruby, Python, a bit of SQL, etc... I've just never really had a use case for Perl, nor am I totally sure what that use case would look like.

mulmen 3y ago
Well Perl isn’t (just) a web language. And this article does a pretty good job explaining what it is. Which is a powerful, lightweight general purpose programming language. CPAN alone is worth the price of admission. I started my career using Perl to build Excel spreadsheets from queries I ran against Oracle DB. That may sound horrible but it was actually plug and play. Really simple and just worked. I could even fire off emails from the script. Just zero hurdles (or guard rails).