> then people decided perl was bad and moved on from that.
Screw what people think. I found out I like perl. The last thing I wrote is a programmatic partition editor [1] - like how you use sfdisk to zero out the partitions, except I wanted to do more than zap, like having the MBR and GPT partition table to combine them and make hybrids.
I was fun, and I will use perl again (I may also use awk at one point now that I see how cool it is)