It used to be my goto language for quick and dirty scripts that needed somewhat non-trivial text processing.
Anyway, this made me think of the 2008 Damian Connway Perlcon keynote:
"Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy"
If you've never seen it it's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTjPx4NIiM