Should I learn Perl

On my brand new Fedora 13 I notice that a lot of stuff is managed trough Perl. I'm always been curious about it, but I never watched at it, while I'm pretty good in many other languages (like C, C++, Java and Python).

What do you think about it? Is it worthy to learn it?

20 here...

>>22
It is true in my everyday work. We do integrate lots of systems in the bank i work for, all the asynchronous data interfaces are in plain text. With perl is very easy, even with the old version we use (5.8)

to >>23
We wrote a perl library in 2 months for parsing and filtering huge text files using our own xml flavor (tailored to our needs and an existing, propietary, xml format). It's roughly 1000 lines, and is very fast, because all filters are converted to calls to grep, cat, head, tail and awk. It was veeery easy to integrate those. Most of the code is for xml interpretation and basic validation.

Perl _is_ the right tool for systems integration. Not the right tool for programs < 5 lines.