[calmbonsai]

I used Perl extensively for small-network (~25 boxen) sysadmin and local/personal tooling, but never in cluster/multi-node deployed production. It gave too much freedom for expression making it difficult to "team-scale".

I stopped using it circa 2000 for no real reason other than Python was easier for teams to adopt and common modules became well-maintained enough where CPAN was no longer a competitive advantage. It also helped that Guido lived and worked a few minutes north in Reston, VA back then.

That said, I still "think" in Perl regex to this very day. ;)

[ddellacosta]

> That said, I still "think" in Perl regex to this very day. ;)

Yeah good point, if there's one thing from Perl that will live far longer than the language itself it's PCREs. I can't thank my experience with the language enough for my facility in crafting regexps.

[xarope]

Agreed, Perl introduced me to REGEX and hashes. To this day, whenever I do any work with data, I tend to think in terms of REGEX first rather than convoluted string manipulation.