Comment by cafard

At some point around 2015, I looked around and noticed that the young (< 35) all seemed to know Python, and that only the middle-aged and older (> 45) seemed to know Perl. I decided that future work, where I had an option, would be in Python. There were a couple where I hesitated, but they are gone.

At the beginning of the transition, I had to look up Python idioms for what I knew in my fingers in Perl. Over the last couple of years, when it made sense for a one-off in Perl, I would omit semicolons, omit braces, count on significant indentation. Can I still write Perl? Yes, and not badly, but not as fluently as before about 2018.