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I was about to start learning Perl in a proper way, but always decided against it. I just can't find a good reason for myself to write Perl code. Unless you want to read or edit others Perl code, what is the reason to learn it? GNU+Bash and Python are often enough for me.
So why learning and using Perl in modern age and day as a newcomer to the language? Look, I'm not negative here, just asking honest question. Because I am actually searching for good reasons to learn Perl.
Well, Perl is great for small scripts that works on large texts, that you process with regex. I still use Perl from time to time, for that kind of scripts. Also commandline, instead of awk/sed...