PERL huh? I write it every day, even today. (Data processing with no GUI. Reformatting data, slapping it into a database, and generating reports.) There’s also Python (for NEW development), and BASH to run things.
I was learning BASIC in high school, and teaching myself 6502 assembly language at night.
“teaching myself 6502 assembly language at night.”
Left programming long ago, but remember doing that too.