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I am the senior dev. Please. No.
You're that afraid of the code you wrote 10 years ago too eh? ๐คฃ
Yes.
I shudder at the thought of the ancient 1000+ lines Perl scripts.. The seal must not be broken
Perl and regex are modern day black magic
I honestly still use Perl for small scripts as a Bash alternative. It is very powerful and is already installed everywhere. I just try not to use it for things others might have to work on..