[thesnide]

Perl is the canonical example of "less is sometimes better".

I love coding in Perl. But it seems that everyone uses a disjoined subset of it, which makes collaboration awkward.

And, if C let you shoot yourself in the foot, C++ give you a shotgun to do so.. Perl gives you a timed nuclear device.

[ay]

Perl (without dependencies) works awesomely well as a replacement for bash in scripts, in my experience. Unlike Python, chances that it will break the next month (or the next decade) are virtually nil.

[XorNot]

Python without dependencies will also work everywhere basically forever. Hell, most Python 2 is valid Python 3, but it's been over a decade now - Python 3 is the default system Python in most everything.

[ay]

“Most” is a highly load bearing item here.

You can’t go back and rewrite the scripts that don’t work so they do.