Most other programmers probably find your code incomprehensible, if it was Perl :^)

But seriously, is there any modern language other than Perl where regular expressions feel so… natural? I reach out for Perl less and less, but always sigh when I need to handle any regex in Python.

or a function sort(), but it was clear by 1997 that there was a lot of money thrown around for everyone knowing how to write a backend in Java.