I downvoted you because I think discouraging learning is a bad thing in general. Perl may be ugly in some cases, but it also has some good ideas. Even if it's t

I downvoted you because I think discouraging learning is a bad thing in general. Perl may be ugly in some cases, but it also has some good ideas. Even if it's the worst language ever, though, it would still make sense to learn it so that you would know why it's the worst language ever. Otherwise, you're just asking someone to accept it on faith.