[tmaly]

Text processing - Perl, I have used it for 20 years now to do this and it is still one of the best languages for it.

[codygman]

Do you have any personal favorite examples? Maybe a recent from your history?

[tmaly]

It is how regular expressions are built into the language itself in the same sense of how Go has goroutines.

For certain sets of problems, it makes it trivial. I remember cranking out a report in a few hours that took a Java team 2 weeks to re-implement.

[cafard]

I would add CPAN to the list of Perl's advantages.