That's why your Language Of Choice is missing many of Perl's features. But hey, at least it has a lot of smugness.

(Smugness solves 0% of my programming problems, but at least I feel good about not solving them.)

I use Python, and the only thing missing from it is ugliness.

You can. But the past decade has produced huge improvements. I've been happily not using python for 10 years but I keep an eye on the state of the art because they regularly come up with interesting ideas that hadn't occurred to me.

Of course, equally, there are lots of other fascinating places to spend your learning time - but discounting a language based on your knowledge of it a decade ago isn't something I'd consider a great idea, in general.