@jessdkant i wouldn’t say regularly, but during my quarter-century sysadmin career (which ended because DevOps ate everything), the only language i ever learned besides shell was perl. i still go back to it as a hobbyist when i find myself bending over backwards with shell, awk, xargs, etc.
@jessdkant Howdy. Using it, but are finally learning #Python because most people don’t do #Perl and I want my stuff to be maintained. Later though I plan to learn #Ruby for hobby fun.
Since 5.6 ish time frame… mid ‘90s.
@jessdkant #Perl has been my paycheck for the past sixteen years. I first learned it in 1994.
If you’d like to join the Perl community in the #fediverse, just follow @Perl. Everything sent there by followers is automatically boosted to all others.
@jessdkant I use it regularly. I love its expressiveness. You might also like #rakulang as well.