Re: I first became interested in Perl because...

[Velaki]

Grep. Sed. Awk.

After using a greater number of invocations of them in a single shellscript, I became aware of this new, budding language called Perl. Best glue language I'd seen.

Over the years, I kept using this blossoming language, especially for quick reporting.

It's still my favorite language, and it has matured to include a great many features never conceived of in the beginning. I still write one-liners with it, and some of those are sometimes humorous.

[Happy-the-monk]

Grep. Sed. Awk.

same here, but actually my employer made me, too.

And missing from the list: hashs, hashs, hashs (not arrays) all the way made things so dreamily %easy.

Cheers, Sören