On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:19:18 -0500
Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Ah, you found the Achilles heel. It is much easier to postulate on the mailing
> list, use big words, and then say you just won't do that thing because
> tools/languages such.
> 
> Perl though...

FTR: Even though I'm good at Perl, I wouldn't use it for this task.

There are a lot of reasons behind this.

But at least one of them would be if I wrote it in Perl, I'd have
nobody else contributing either.

And IME, that's fair enough.