20 years ago this was my go-to language. Its CLI was very easy to develop your own system to combine grep, sed, awk, uniq, etc into awesome one liners, and for producing more complex file and network manipulation techniques.
One huge challenge I had was the inability to read other people's Perl code. There were dozens of ways to solve the same problem, and I had extreme difficulty reconciling my own understanding of "perl" with other people's code.
One huge challenge I had was the inability to read other people's Perl code. There were dozens of ways to solve the same problem, and I had extreme difficulty reconciling my own understanding of "perl" with other people's code.