I don't know why my parent comment gets so furiously downvoted. As a Perl dev earning a living by doing web development in Perl, I am quite interested in the s

I don't know why my parent comment gets so furiously downvoted. As a Perl dev earning a living by doing web development in Perl, I am quite interested in the show stopping downsides of the language. I really have my skin in this game. Not only have I read this thread, I've read the countless Perl bashing articles that keep appearing on the internet and the main complain is the syntax. Indeed, one can write unreadable Perl but that is also possible with Python, Ruby and even brainfuck (if you can believe that). I have to tell you this: in my over 10 years of being a paid programmer and over 7 years of being a 100% Perl dev, the syntax is the easiest thing to grasp.