Strange, maybe because of being a 70's kid and a D&D nerd, that kind of stuff is exactly why I liked Perl in first place.

That and Perl giving me a reason to do safe programming in UNIX with a managed language that exposed all the UNIX API surface, and only switching back into C when I actually needed some additional perf, or low level stuff not fully exposed in Perl.

Then again, I am also a fanboi of Haskell, C++, Scala, Idris and similar "wizard" languages.