Think of it as a commenting or documentation system that's also interpreted by the language. Comments that can never get out of date. If you think that human-r

Think of it as a commenting or documentation system that's also interpreted by the language. Comments that can never get out of date. If you think that human-readable comments and documentation are not useful... then I'm not going to try to convince you that you would benefit from perl's syntactic flexibility. But surely you recognize that there are some people that like documentation, useful comments, and informative variable names.