@mjgardner Do you think it's worth picking up Perl now? I'm tempted to revisit it after a brief flirtation a decade ago, also 5 or 6/Raku?
@mjgardner Really just for my own edification. I'm drawn to the long tradition of Perl in Unix/Linux. It still seems to be very healthy.
@sullybiker #Perl is also going another phase of exciting improvements lately. Experimental features like subroutine signatures and postfix dereferencing are finally stable and misfeatures are being deprecated or forbidden. And there are entirely new experimental features being worked on, including a modern #ObjectOrientedProgramming syntax and paradigm being built into the core language.
@sullybiker Oh, if you’re into the #Unix tradition and philosophy then you *need* to learn #Perl. No other general-purpose programming language has Unix baked into it so deeply.