I'm one of those "kids these days" but did actually learn to program Perl at some point, and I generally prefer AWK. Perl is a large and complex language, I don

I'm one of those "kids these days" but did actually learn to program Perl at some point, and I generally prefer AWK. Perl is a large and complex language, I don't need it that often, and I'm not smart enough to keep remembering all of it. Now, if I would get hired as a full-time Perl developer and spent 2 years developing Perl: it would perhaps be different. But that's not the case, and isn't for most people. For better or worse, Perl sees a lot less usage than it once did; I rarely encounter it "in the wild" and don't even have it on my laptop because nothing needs it.