https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tags/perl/ Recent content in Perl on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:33:46 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/reflections/is-perl-still-relevant/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:33:46 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/reflections/is-perl-still-relevant/ Perl is in an interesting position today. It is no longer the language that every system administrator or text-processing enthusiast is expected to know, yet many of the ideas we take for granted today—powerful regular expressions, concise text transformations, one-liners, and “glue” programming—owe a great deal to Perl. Rather than asking whether it is obsolete, perhaps the better question is: what role does Perl play in the modern textsmith’s toolbox?