Won’t nitpick, how much of what’s useful here is unique to perl? You could make a similar list for most languages and barely scratch the surface. top class uni

Won’t nitpick, how much of what’s useful here is unique to perl? You could make a similar list for most languages and barely scratch the surface. top class unicode handling This one I remember struggling with, afair due to io vs perlio layers impedance mismatch and use utf8. Not sure about now, but perl was anything but unicode for the clueless.