> It's not actually that hard to write readable, clean perl. The real issue is that it's trivially easy to write very clever, perfectly functional, and complet

> It's not actually that hard to write readable, clean perl. The real issue is that it's trivially easy to write very clever, perfectly functional, and completely unreadable Perl. A lot of Java's verbosity is due to the fact that inexperienced developers need to have their hand slapped by the compiler pretty frequently. "No, stop, what was it you really meant to do there?" Of course now with Kotlin and Go we're swinging back the other way.