Perl aficionado here - I love Perl for its regex as well. Whenever I need to do serious regex work (log parsing, for example), I pull out Perl. Many of the engi

Perl aficionado here - I love Perl for its regex as well. Whenever I need to do serious regex work (log parsing, for example), I pull out Perl. Many of the engineers I’ve worked with also don’t realize that it makes an extremely good shell interaction tool (much more powerful and intuitive than Bash scripting, for example) and I have developed many a TUI with it. I eventually learned Python as well, but always saw Perl as superior in many ways, especially when raw performance isn’t a consideration.