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Text processing - Perl, I have used it for 20 years now to do this and it is still one of the best languages for it.

Do you have any personal favorite examples? Maybe a recent from your history?

It is how regular expressions are built into the language itself in the same sense of how Go has goroutines.

For certain sets of problems, it makes it trivial. I remember cranking out a report in a few hours that took a Java team 2 weeks to re-implement.

I would add CPAN to the list of Perl's advantages.