Spent about 4 weeks learning perl at an internship 10 years ago. I believe that is one of the biggest professional mistakes I ever made. There is literally nothing I would recommend doing with perl over python.
I wasted the entire internship writing horrible perl code and not learning how to do anything that I would use later. This was early enough in my career that it had a lasting effect on my perception of software development and it took me 3+ years to get back "on track".
Almost all Perl code will