Comment by aaronbaugher

I still use it in my job every day too. It's just become a meme, the whole "write-only language" thing. No one says that about shell scripting, despite the sigils and plenty of stuff that becomes incomprehensible to almost anyone if you do anything very complicated. I'd much rather diagnose some newbie's Perl script than some of the commercially-distributed bash installers I've had to deal with.