[bluGill]

I haven't used Perl much, but my impression it is much easier to learn if you already know awk and sed - his original target was people who knew awk and sed well but were running into limitations using the two as separate tools. However the language quickly spread to people who don't know either of the previous tools and then it is difficult to learn.

[fuzztester]

>I haven't used Perl much, but my impression it is much easier to learn if you already know awk and sed - his original target was people who knew awk and sed well but were running into limitations using the two as separate tools.

Yes. In fact, in the early days, there were tools with names like sed2perl and awk2perl, or similar, IIRC. And those could convert code between their respective source and target languages.

And even easier if you know C and Unix.