Comment by kdklol

I discovered Perl basically by accident. For scripting/systems administration its simply unmatched. It's been clearly designed for speed and utility which is what I always wanted and I'm a bit disappointed nobody ever mentioned it to me. I'm 20-something btw, so it's not just ravings of an old man. I think the catastrophe happened when people mistook this it for a backend development language... and it somehow worked. Not well, but it did, which is it's own quality. I slowly started learning it half a year ago and it's been really useful for scripts. It's indeed more robust than POSIX shell which tends to have baked in assumptions about the system which may not transfer well onto different platforms. No regrets - the grey beards were right!