The next time I need awk or sed, whatever I end up writing I’ll submit to chat gpt and ask it to rewrite it in perl so I can compare. I’m curious because so many people (well, enough people anyway) speak so highly of perl’s text processing capabilities. If it’s such a great tool, then I want to use it too.

Edit: one plus is that perl is as ubiquitous as awk and sed. It was there the whole time and I didn’t even realize it!