yea its still used for shell/web/config management. i would only use it for data conversion and shell scripts anymore. not serious: you can learn good and bad o

yea its still used for shell/web/config management. i would only use it for data conversion and shell scripts anymore. not serious: you can learn good and bad of language design. i guess its going away b/c u can use php/node/ruby/python for scripts more and there are more stand alone apps for shell to do jobs you used have to code by hand in perl.