perl -MCPAN -e 'shell;'
install DateTime

Proceeds to install a shit ton of dependencies, takes two hours to install.

WHY? Does math functions related to date/times require all those deps?

Checks date. its 2021.
verify. still 2021.

....

perl? in 2021?

@magicMirror There are people using COBOL in 2021. At least one of them is/was on devRant.

@sbiewald Cobol kinda makes sense. legacy system for banks from the 80. sure.
But perl? this day and age?

@magicMirror Legacy system from the 90s? 😛

Jokes aside, our company's monitoring system uses Perl and I know of at least a couple of large/popular systems were it is used today.

For small tasks it's ideal: Runs everywhere* and it does take too long to load (Python takes up to multiple seconds on slow systems, and let's not talk about Powershell) and still is a high level language.