Yep. Perl the first language I ever used to professionally do something approximating "real programming" (as opposed to one-off scripting). And then I learned Python and never touched Perl again ... at least at the time, to my very inexperienced self, it felt like an improvement on every single axis.

In retrospect, probably 90% of my enthusiasm for python over perl was just "if you use python, you never have to think about variable sigils ever again." That and `string.split()`.