Perl was my first language too! Believe it or not, there's a ton of b*ch work that still needs to be done by interns at legacy tech that involves the language (looking at you Veritas, although this was a long time ago so who knows).
I'm grateful Rust now exists and is able to match, and even beat, Perl in regex text surgery.
I'm grateful Rust now exists and is able to match, and even beat, Perl in regex text surgery.