Is Perl worth learning?

Hi /prog/. I have Programming Perl and some spare time, should I learn Perl? I know the syntax is terrible, but is there anything good about it?

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❝'Regular expressions' [...] are only marginally related to real regular expressions. Nevertheless, the term has grown with the capabilities of our pattern matching engines, so I'm not going to try to fight linguistic necessity here. I will, however, generally call them "regexes" (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood).^[4]❞