After over a decade of programming in various more and less popular languages, I became a manager. I no longer had time to write real code but I needed to be able to automate things still, so I learned Perl.

Then I discovered one of Perl's best kept secrets: it allows you to write real code, if you want to.

Now I'm back to being a regular programmer again but I just happen to be more productive with Perl than anything else.

I have written about it before[1] but it boils down to one thing: it runs anywhere with no modification or installation, even 20 years from now.

[1]: https://two-wrongs.com/why-perl.html