When I went to school, I learned shell scripting (specifically ksh), C, Pascal and assembler. When I say “learned”, I mean just enough to get me started with any of them. Then I started work and I added perl to my portfolio. Perl was big back then. It was and still is amazing for working with text files. Analyzing logs and such. However, perl slowlt … died. It’s not dead but just less and less popular.
I’ve been watching a few of those videos that talk about vim vs other editors for programming. I thought I throw my two cents in and explain, why I use vim. Not just for editing configuration files, but also programming and pretty much anything else. I even write this post with vim. I say that right away, I don’t think that the other ones are bad, they are just not right for me.