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by heresie-dabord 1988 days ago
> used in serious new applications these days?

Unpack this for us... Do you mean commercial applications? If so, you can determine for yourself the small number of languages used for "serious applications".

If you mean data analysis, ETL, system administration, and general data reconstruction, I can't think of a faster, more appropriate language than Perl. Sed and awk are also powerful mainstays.