Fun! But honestly there's a place for Perl. There's far less variance between Perls on different systems than there are for sed/awk/shell. So if you want per

Fun! But honestly there's a place for Perl. There's far less variance between Perls on different systems than there are for sed/awk/shell. So if you want performant portable code, Perl does better than all of those. I'd never use Perl for a 'big' program these days but it still beats the crap out of the mess of sed/awk/bash/ksh/zsh.