> This is just the nature of Perl. I would encourage you to check out some of the more recent tools and books on Perl that help greatly in making code readable

> This is just the nature of Perl. I would encourage you to check out some of the more recent tools and books on Perl that help greatly in making code readable and maintainable, like the Modern Perl book, the Perl Best Practices book or things like Moose - or even if I dare say, Perl 6. The Perl Community has come a long way since when I started in 1999, that's for sure. So has the entire Industry, to be quite honest.