I learned Perl in or around 1996; and it continues to work well for practical extraction and rubbish listing.
I've used Python when it was convenient, but I dislike it. So Perl remains my go to when I need to process data for more than a shell script.
Things I've written in Perl that I've run recently (or are croned so they run frequently) include: scripts to monitor shared directories for changes (kqueue) and publish the changes to a remote server so my spouse can drop images or other files to be shared on a share and get a link to send, or edit a recipe and check it from the web while shopping; my monitoring script that checks if my computers are working and emails me if not, it also reboots my dsl modem when it needs it; (for work) a tool to grab stats files from production, compute a summary, and then upload it so clients can be routed to the servers that are best for them.
I've done all sorts of stuff with Perl in the past, it's a very capable language.
I've used Python when it was convenient, but I dislike it. So Perl remains my go to when I need to process data for more than a shell script.
Things I've written in Perl that I've run recently (or are croned so they run frequently) include: scripts to monitor shared directories for changes (kqueue) and publish the changes to a remote server so my spouse can drop images or other files to be shared on a share and get a link to send, or edit a recipe and check it from the web while shopping; my monitoring script that checks if my computers are working and emails me if not, it also reboots my dsl modem when it needs it; (for work) a tool to grab stats files from production, compute a summary, and then upload it so clients can be routed to the servers that are best for them.
I've done all sorts of stuff with Perl in the past, it's a very capable language.