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Perl is a superset of awk: see [a2p(1p)] (a core Perl script).
You don't *need* to use external modules to use Perl scripts. The core has a bunch. OP elected to use a module for web log parsing because it was available, not because it was the only way.
All successful languages rely on modules and libraries. Distributing these is an age-old problem. Perl has one solution, which may seem old fashioned, but at least for me, it's way easier to understand that Python's (or containers, for that matter).
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