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Michael

Many will laugh but for me it was Perl.

One of the first I really learned and used, but the most important thing that got me was Regular Expressions. Learning how to use Backticks, as well as simple Matching Patterns and Substitutions has really paid off for me. To this day when I get to someones code with a Regular Expression its eye opening when I look at one and cringe recalling how I used to make ones like that, then I show people how to make it simpler and easier to read.