[thesuperbigfrog]

>> Perl is a very complex language, and is not used anymore, so you're just spending your time on something you'll rarely use.

Perl is no more complex than Python, Ruby, or Powershell. If you use any of those you can be productive with Perl in a few hours.

Perl is still used, it is just not as popular as it was in the past. Do you use Git? Parts of it are written in perl. Large parts of Git were originally written in Perl, but have been migrated to C over time.