[eikenberry]

Really more around 1994, just before Perl 5 came out. Perl was a great sh/sed/awk replacement for a while..

[ryl00]

Still is, for many of us (I only picked it up in 2000).

[isostatic]

What's better 25 years later for that sort of work?

[japanoise]

Yeah I learned Perl in 2013 or so and I almost exclusively use it as a better shell+sed for text munging, which is where it excels. In my experience Python is super bad at this compared to Perl or even shell