> Perl is horrible, ugly, unclean, unmaintainable in the general case, inelegant Bollocks. It has some bizarre vestigial organs and functional redundancies fr

> Perl is horrible, ugly, unclean, unmaintainable in the general case, inelegant Bollocks. It has some bizarre vestigial organs and functional redundancies from its evolution, but so does every language. Sometimes it's easy to take concision too far, but you prefer the alternative of mandatory verbosity? Go look at some of the things people are doing with Moose and POE and try to claim inelegance.