I’ve never done Perl but would writing solo in Perl and then rewriting it again in Perl with a team be an option?

I have an affection for both Forth and Lisp, two languages that have also been called highly productive but write only.

I think a working early version- even if its a spreadsheet- is 10x of a supposedly 80% done version of something else. The latter of which I must now return to unfortunately…